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Old 01-22-2009
Crontab For First Monday Of Every Month!!
Hi,

Could any one please let me know the crontab entry for scheduling a job for every first monday of the month?

Thank You in advance,

Sue
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Old 01-22-2009
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...ery-month.html
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Old 04-24-2009
I hate to wake a sleeping thread, but I thought this might be helpful to some.

Code:
0 08 1-7 */3 *   [ "$(date '+%a')" == "Mon" ] &&  run_script.sh

Schedule to run at 8am on the first Monday, every third month.
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