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Hello Guys,

I have a questions regarding running a shell script every second working day each month.
I have no clue how solve this problem .
Important is that it has to be the second working (Mo-Fr).
Example: If 1st and 2nd Days of month are Sat and Sun the script must run on 4th day of month (2n working day) which is Thuesday.

Thanks for your help!

Kind Regards
David

Wait a minute...
your exemple makes monday the 1rst working day not the second...

Can you be a bit more clear

Sat and Sun are not working days (at least where I live).
Your first and send WORKING days of a month don't have to be Monday and Tuesday - they can be anything: they could be Friday and Monday for all we know.

In other words on Friday 1rst it will also run on the next monday no?
And what about Sunday 1rst? ...

Yes, if friday is the first working day the script must run on monday because SAT and SUN are no working days
Workings Days are from Mon-Fri

As my example shows if SAT is the 1st day of the month then the script must run on thuesday it'll be the 4th day of month, but the 2nd working day of month.
All that'll get more complex if there are public holidays...

Thanks for your help!

So you choose to run every 2,3,4 of the month and in your script you test to execute:
pseudo

Code:

if [ dm = 2 ]
then
    run the job
else
   if [ dm = 3 ]
   then
      if  [ dw = Tuesday ]
      then
          run the job
      fi
   else
   if [ dw = Monday ] or [ dw = Tuesday ]  # => dm = 4 then...
   then
       run the job
   fi
fi

Do you agree?
I'm waiting to see your implementation...