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I want to schedule a job for 3rd Friday of every month, 1 AM .
I checked few cron entry websites for that didn't work for me.

I was also checking for some awk options for this so far not successful with that.
Can you guys help me with that?

I tried to run this for today the cron is working fine but the script is running continuously at the same point and not getting completed :

0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt 

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I want to schedule a job for 3rd Friday of every month, 1 AM .
I checked few cron entry websites for that didn't work for me.

I was also checking for some awk options for this so far not successful with that.
Can you guys help me with that?

I tried to run this for today the cron is working fine but the script is running continuously at the same point and not getting completed :

0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt 

cron scheduling

share|improve this question

edited 2 days ago

user3901666

asked 2 days ago

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I want to schedule a job for 3rd Friday of every month, 1 AM .
I checked few cron entry websites for that didn't work for me.

I was also checking for some awk options for this so far not successful with that.
Can you guys help me with that?

I tried to run this for today the cron is working fine but the script is running continuously at the same point and not getting completed :

0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt 

cron scheduling

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0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt 

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Unfortunately, when you give both a day-of-month and a day-of-week in a crontab entry, this means either one is sufficient. (Didn't know that either, but the manpage says so.) This means we can't simply calculate that the 3rd friday is a friday that is between the 15th and 21st of the month.

Fortunately, the above-linked man page also advises us:

One can, however, achieve the desired result by adding a test to the command (see the last example in EXAMPLE CRON FILE below).

[…]

# Run on every second Saturday of the month

0 4 8-14 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"

so you should be fine with

0 1 15-21 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday"

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answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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  So this is how i put the entry as i am passing an argument to ithe script i have to schedule? 0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Can you please tell me if there is any error in the cron entry?
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @user3901666: well, you should leave off the && echo "3rd friday", other than that, that looks good.
  
  – Ulrich Schwarz
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  But, I was able to get the cron run with your command , I just had to add a sh before the script. Thank you so much.
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Is this && echo "3rd friday" not required??
  
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Unfortunately, when you give both a day-of-month and a day-of-week in a crontab entry, this means either one is sufficient. (Didn't know that either, but the manpage says so.) This means we can't simply calculate that the 3rd friday is a friday that is between the 15th and 21st of the month.

Fortunately, the above-linked man page also advises us:

One can, however, achieve the desired result by adding a test to the command (see the last example in EXAMPLE CRON FILE below).

[…]

# Run on every second Saturday of the month

0 4 8-14 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"

so you should be fine with

0 1 15-21 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday"

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  So this is how i put the entry as i am passing an argument to ithe script i have to schedule? 0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Can you please tell me if there is any error in the cron entry?
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @user3901666: well, you should leave off the && echo "3rd friday", other than that, that looks good.
  
  – Ulrich Schwarz
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  But, I was able to get the cron run with your command , I just had to add a sh before the script. Thank you so much.
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Is this && echo "3rd friday" not required??
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

1

Unfortunately, when you give both a day-of-month and a day-of-week in a crontab entry, this means either one is sufficient. (Didn't know that either, but the manpage says so.) This means we can't simply calculate that the 3rd friday is a friday that is between the 15th and 21st of the month.

Fortunately, the above-linked man page also advises us:

One can, however, achieve the desired result by adding a test to the command (see the last example in EXAMPLE CRON FILE below).

[…]

# Run on every second Saturday of the month

0 4 8-14 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"

so you should be fine with

0 1 15-21 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday"

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  So this is how i put the entry as i am passing an argument to ithe script i have to schedule? 0 1 15-21 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday" && Extract_Param.sh /landing/file/ABC/file.txt
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Can you please tell me if there is any error in the cron entry?
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @user3901666: well, you should leave off the && echo "3rd friday", other than that, that looks good.
  
  – Ulrich Schwarz
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  But, I was able to get the cron run with your command , I just had to add a sh before the script. Thank you so much.
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Is this && echo "3rd friday" not required??
  
  – user3901666
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

Unfortunately, when you give both a day-of-month and a day-of-week in a crontab entry, this means either one is sufficient. (Didn't know that either, but the manpage says so.) This means we can't simply calculate that the 3rd friday is a friday that is between the 15th and 21st of the month.

Fortunately, the above-linked man page also advises us:

One can, however, achieve the desired result by adding a test to the command (see the last example in EXAMPLE CRON FILE below).

[…]

# Run on every second Saturday of the month

0 4 8-14 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"

so you should be fine with

0 1 15-21 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday"

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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0 1 15-21 * *    test $(date +%u) -eq 5 && echo "3rd friday"

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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answered 2 days ago

Ulrich SchwarzUlrich Schwarz

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