[SOLVED] How to run a script on first sunday of every month

jayakumar01 · 05-29-2012, 10:01 AM

Hi All.

I had planned to run crontab schedule to backup database backup of every dunday of every month .Can anyone help me how can i set the crontab schedule to run on first sunday of every month

rknichols · 05-29-2012, 10:39 AM

You can't do that entirely within a crontab entry. Best alternative is to have cron run the script every Sunday, and then have the script itself check whether the day of month is greater than 7:

Code:

test $(date +%-d) -gt 7 && exit 0  # If not the first week, do nothing (successfully)

colucix · 05-29-2012, 02:40 PM

In alternative you can do the check in the crontab entry itself, e.g.

Code:

0 18 * * 0 [ $(date +\%e) -le 7 ] && /path/to/my/script.sh