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

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Scott H wrote:

> 
> 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>

I would write it:
#!/bin/bash
check=`date +%a`

if [ !$check = "Sun" ]; then 

  exit 0
fi
(rest of your script goes here)

Of course I'n not a bash guru and there may be better ways of doing this.
Note that those are backticks around date +%a


> 
> 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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