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Need to Setup cron entry in Crontab

how to schedule a job in cron on last sunday of every month?

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at 10am every last sunday - YMMV:

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0 10 * * * [ `date +%d` -eq `cal | nawk 'NF{i=$1}END{print i}` ] && funMyScript

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