complex crontab query

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:53:47PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> [20030930 21:08]: wrote:

> >   23 11 * * Thu   [ $(date +%d) -lt 8 ] && your_script

> How does that differ with the following?
> 
> 23 11 * * 4     if [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ]; then /path/to/my/command; fi

TIMTOWTDI.

Both lines should have the same effect overall, although I neglected
to escape the % sign in what I wrote, which is not a good move in a
crontab file.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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