Last day of week or month in crontab

jlinkels · 07-06-2012, 12:49 PM

Often I have seen questions here about scheduling a cron job for the last day of the week or the last day of the month.

According to this source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Format
this can easily be specified by using 'L' in the day or month field.

jlinkels

unSpawn · 07-07-2012, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels

(..) scheduling a cron job for the last day of the week or the last day of the month. (..) this can easily be specified by using 'L' in the day or month field.

...unless your cron daemon doesn't support that but instead allows for "@weekly" or "@monthly". // Off the 0-reply list now.