[ale] cron entry that runs the 2nd saturday of every month

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 12:47 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote: 
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 16:47 -0400, Erik Mathis wrote: 
> >> I ran into this same issue, and iirc cron uses a AND to compare dates.
> >> I ended up running it every Monday and added a wrapper to the script
> >> to decide if its the right day to do this function. If not, just exit.

> Here's what I think is a workable solution:

> set $(date +"%d %u")

> monthday=$1
> weekday=$2

> if [ $weekday -eq 6 ]; then

> case $monthday in
>          8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14)
> 
>              echo it is the 2nd saturday
>              ;;
>      esac
> fi

You're work'n too hard...

DCODE=`date +%u%d`

if [[ ${DCODE} -gt 607 && ${DCODE} -lt 615 ]]
then
echo "2nd Saturday"
fi

> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
> 
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