complex crontab query

Kai Grossjohann kai.grossjohann at gmx.net
Tue Sep 30 13:55:30 PDT 2003


Matthew Hunt <mph at astro.caltech.edu> writes:

>> 2. Every first Thursday of the month
>
> 0  3  1-7   *  *  [ `date +%a` = Thu ] && mycommand

My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
performs a logical conjunction.  So wouldn't it work to do like this?

# minute hour dom month dow command
0        3    1-7 *     4   mycommand

But I'm not an expert.

Kai



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