Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted > it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February > will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, > I decided to run cron on the first day of every month using > the @month parameter.
crontab(5) doesn't suggest a good way to do this, no. So yeah, running early (say, 12:03 AM) on the first of the month is easy: 3 0 1 * * /usr/local/sbin/ourscript > The problem is that I want the month to reflect the previous month. > > MON=$((`date +%m`-1)) How about: MON=`date -d yesterday +%m` date(1) seems to think "yesterday" is exactly 24 hours ago, if you're looking at other fields. (Or maybe it's exactly a day ago; this makes a difference around daylight savings.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
