I want to execute a crontab every first of month and every sunday, Here is what I think to do, I am not sure if it will execute it the first of month only if it's a sunday or every first of month and every sunday, Any ideas to clarify this are welcome:)
00 16 1 * 7 "command"
Thanks in advance
You are correct, Kahina.
00 16 1 * 7 "command"
will run the "command" at 16:00 on the 1st of each month, plus every Sunday.
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We have jobs that are scheduled to run 1 time per day - every day
We do maintenance every 3rd Sunday of the month.
Up until now every month we have manually adjusted the cron to make the job run a little later in the morning then after maintenance we reset to the desired schedule
I am trying to change cron so that we
run at 7:00am every day EXCEPT the third Sunday of the month
run at 9:00am only on the third Sunday of the month
the second item I am able to handle
0 13 15-21 * 0
however, the first has me stumped. I thought this would do the job but it will only execute this if the day is between 1-14 or 22-31 but what if the 15th is not Sunday - then it won't run.
0 11 1-14,22-31 * *
How do I tell cron to run a schedule EXCEPT the third Sunday of the month?
There is a large base of guidance on how to limit when a cron runs to a specific window but I haven't found much for how to EXCLUDE a cron from a specific window
******** UPDATE ********
I think I may have come up with an answer - not sure if it is the most efficient but
0 11 1-14,22-31 * 0
0 13 15-21 * 0
0 11 1-14,22-31 * 1-6
The above will
run at 11:00 UTC on Sunday if date is between 1-14 or 22-31
run at 13:00 UTC on Sunday if date is between 15-21 (3rd Sunday)
run at 11:00 UTC Monday through Saturday all month
If a cron job has different timing than others, then it best to just define it by itself rather than trying to combine, unless you put some code in your script to do what you actually want. Doing something in cron on some nth day of the month is a pretty well known problem. Most crontab man pages have this note:
Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified in the following two fields — 'day of month', and 'day of week'. If both fields are restricted (i.e., do not contain the "*" character), the command will be run when either field matches the crent 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 it does OR between the day of the week and the day of the month, not an AND. I don't who ever thought this was helpful, but that's the way it is. You can see solutions at:
Run every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
you need something like (this assumes cron runs /bin/sh):
[ `date +\%w` -eq 6 ] && <command>
on your cron job line, the above is would restrict to running only on Saturday.
I need to schedule a cron job to run at 3:00 PM on the first Thursday of every month. How can I do this?
I have read another topic similar to this, but it is for the first Sunday of every month. How do I modify this to suit my needs?
Every first Sunday of very month
00 09 * * 7 [ $(date +\%d) -le 07 ] && /run/your/script
Thanks in advance!
from man 1p crontab
INPUT FILES
In the POSIX locale, the user or application shall ensure that a crontab entry is a text file consisting
of lines of six fields each. The fields shall be separated by "blank" characters. The first five fields
shall be integer patterns that specify the following:
1. Minute [0,59]
2. Hour [0,23]
3. Day of the month [1,31]
4. Month of the year [1,12]
5. Day of the week ([0,6] with 0=Sunday)
I hope that helps.
I'm trying to write a crontab expression that will begin a specified period of time and run on an interval for a 24 hour period. For example I want the job to run every Thursday beginning at 4 PM and repeat every hour for 1 day. Is there a way to do this? Everything I have tried stops at the end of the day Thursday.
You need two crontab entries, one for the occurrences on Thursday and one for the occurrences on Friday.
For example (I have not tested this):
0 16-23 * * 4 your_command
0 0-15 * * 5 your_command
The fifth column is the day of the week, with Sunday=0. (Vixie cron also lets you specify the day of the week by name.)
I have cronjob to be run on every month first friday evening
i used the below mentioned entry
00 20 1-7 * Fri [ "$(date '+\%a')" = "Fri" ] && $HOME/path/to/my/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
This entry should run my script if Friday falls withing 1-7 day of the month, but my script is getting executed even after 7th (i.e on all Fridays of the month).
Please suggest how to fix it.
This is because when you specify a day of month and day of week, cron will execute the job when EITHER of those constraints are true. From the man page for crontab (5):
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 (i.e.,
aren't *), the command will be run when either field matches the cur‐
rent 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.
There isn't a direct way in cron to do what you want, but cron : how to schedule to run first Sunday of every month describes a workaround by using cron to run your script e.g. every Friday and then calculating in the script if the day of month is in the range 1-7, and only continuing when that is the case.
In response to the comment about using 5 rather than Fri to specify day of week: using Fri is OK, as the man page says:
Months or days of the week can be specified by name.
What does this command mean in cron? How often will this run? When will it run? Will it run daily?
56 11 * * * /usr/sbin/update-file.sh
From crontab(5):
field allowed values
----- --------------
minute 0-59
hour 0-23
day of month 1-31
month 1-12 (or names, see below)
day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
Thus, your line means to run /usr/sbin/update-file.sh every day at 11:56 AM.
Crontab format is: minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, command.
So this will run /usr/sbin/update-file.sh at 11:56 AM every day.