Re: how to schedule a job on second saturday using cron ?

Hmm, that's odd, it should not work.  From the crontab documentation 
(man page):

"Note:  The  day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields
-- day of month, and day of week.  If both fields are  restricted  (ie,
aren't  *),  the command will be run when _either_ field matches the 
current time.  For example,
``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st
and 15th of each month, plus every Friday."

So the example below would run every Saturday plus 8th-14th of the 
month, not what you want.

A quick search of Google gives you something better, like this:

0 1 8-14 * * [ "$(date +\%a)" == "Sat" ] && script_with_no_date_logic


Prem Khanna J wrote:

> Hi Charlotte/Gillies,
> 
> Thanks for your help. it works : )
> 
[...]
> On 5/23/05, Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Prem,
>>Something like this (1am on 2nd Saturday):
>>00 01 8,9,10,11,12,13,14 * 6 /app/my_saturday_job.sh
>>HTH,
>>Charlotte
[...]

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