[Eug-lug] crontab - last day of month

Matthew Jarvis mattj at bikefriday.com
Mon Nov 20 13:11:29 PST 2006


Bob Miller wrote:
> Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> 
> 
>>One suggestion was to run it for 28, 29, 30, 31 and then determine some 
>>other way if it's really the last day of the month...
> 
> 
> That's not a bad idea.
> 
> 0 1 28-31 * * [ "`date +%m`" != "`date +%m --date=tomorrow`" ] && run-end-of-month-job
> 

Hey - that looks like the ticket...

And even my feeble brain can figure out what it's doing....

Thanks kbob!


Matthew S. Jarvis
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