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Hi guys,
I want to know how to run a task at the last day of every month, whethwer it has 31, 30 days or whatever. it's to update a MySql db (The Worst Database In The World, no contest
Thanks in advance.
I'll include a cron header to make it easy to explain.
#minute (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day of the month (1-31),
#| | | month of the year (1-12),
#| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
#| | | | | commands
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks guys, answer is perfect,
This thread just shows how much I still need to learn. i'm a sysadmin/programmer so I'm learning different date syntax all the time (i've got to remember MySql/Php/Linux/C/God Knows What else) It's a little daunting sometimes. But I'll just do what i always do: wing it! As you've probably guessed formal logic is a euphamisim for "Don't know what the hell i'm doing"
you have to strip out the plus sign between $test_date and "1 day". The syntax to add days, hours, and so on, is simply
Code:
date -d "$test_date 1 day 3 hours"
that is you can put one or more time specifications with different units, but without the + sign. To subtract an amount of time, use the word "ago" in the time specification:
I've just re-read man:crontab(5) & man:cron(8) & I'm surprised there is no "Last of Month" feature. IMO, this is a bug.
If you run your script at 1:13 am, as suggested, won't you be doing your update before the beginning of business? I would expect that anything that needs to be done on the last day of the month needs to be done after the close of business. If that is the case, why not run your script at 1:13 am on the 1st of the month.
BTW, what is the purpose of the db update you're tasked w/ doing?
This also works, notice here I'm using d/m/y instead of m/d/y.
Code:
# GET FIRST DAY OF LAST MONTH
FIRST=$(date --date "last month" +01/%m/%Y)
# USE FIRST DAY OF THIS MONTH TO GET LAST DAY OF LAST MONTH.
LAST=$(date --date "`date +%m/01/%Y` yesterday" +%d/%m/%Y)
echo "FIRST $FIRST"
echo "LAST $LAST"
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