Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - "and' condition

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 09/19/14 09:47, Stephan Müller wrote:
>Am 18.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Joseph:
>> I want to run a cron job only once a month.  The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5
>> cron tab as this below is an "or" condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the  Week
>>
>> 5 18 1 * 2  rsync -av ...
>>
>> so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months.
>> Is it possible to create "and" condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on?
>
>You can run it every Tuesday and check for day of month externally:
>
>5 18 * * 2   test $(date +%d) -le 7 && rsync -av ...
>
>or run it on
>
>5 18 1-7 * * and test for Tuesdays, but the former gives less useless invocations.
>
> ~frukto

Thanks, very cleaver, I knew there must be a solution.

-- 
Joseph