[ILUGC] Re: Need help on crontab - run a script on every month second saturday - 3 PM
- From: Sumīt Viks <vkslist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:49:04 +0530
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 13:38, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
I need to run a scheduled script using crontab or airflow.
The time is - every month second saturday - 3 PM
How to set this in crontab?
[...]
# On a Linux box
$ man 5 crontab
...
EXAMPLE CRON FILE
The following lists an example of a user crontab file.
# IMPORTANT: use /bin/bash to run commands, instead of the default
/bin/sh
SHELL=/bin/bash
...
# mail any output to `paul', no matter whose crontab this is
MAILTO=<SET THIS TO GET EMAILS>
#
...
# Run at 4am on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
Best,
/s
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