running a job on the 2nd Sunday of each month?

man date is your friend, that said "date +%A" will spit out what day of
the week it is now. The rest is scripting.

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:01, Scott H wrote:
> >>On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Scott H wrote:
> >>I can't figure out how to run a cron job on the
> >>2nd Sunday of every month, at 4am. What would
> >> that line look like? Or is this not possible?
> >
> > according to
> > man crontab this will run on the 8th through
> > the 14th *and* every Sunday
> > which is why I wrote date checking as the
> > beginning of the script. I have
> > not run this schedule myself so I am trusting
> > the man pages to be right.
>
> I am also trusting the same.
>
> > Make the first line of the script check for
> > day of the week and exit if
> > it's not Sunday. <snip>
>
> OK, thanks, and how does one write that? (Sorry,
> newbie at all this, I'm RTFMing, but haven't
> found that yet)
>
> /home/scott/sigs/thankyous/sincere.html :)
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