Re: Scheduling Jobs - Last day of the month - HOWTO?

On 2006-08-30, Vilmos Soti <vilmos@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Even more, here is a way to check if this is the last day of the month:
(not checked)

month=$(date +'%h')
if ! date --date=tomorrow | grep -q " $month "; then
echo last day of the month
fi

Ensure that there is no collision with the month names anywhere.

Or, how about comparing the output of the command

date -date=tomorrow +%d

against the string "01"? Today is the last day of the month
iff tomorrow day-of-month is 1.

Your solution is even better and simpler than mine.

(but for the archive record, use --date= instead of -date=.)

You are correct. Thanks for catching and correcting my error.

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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