[sclug] cron expression

[Jonathan H N Chin]

darren wrote:
> Is it possible to create a single cron expression (for vixie cron) that
> specifies the penultimate day of the month?

If you have GNU date on your path:

	MM HH * * * [ `date -d+2day +%d` = 1 ] && MYSCRIPT

Fill in MM, HH and MYSCRIPT as appropriate.

You could give DoM as "28,29,30,31" but it hardly seems worth it.


-jonathan

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