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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:32:31 -0400
From:      Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cronjob
Message-ID:  <200906081832.31564.mike.jeays@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A2D5EDF.2000508@webrz.net>
References:  <20090608183045.F1B08BED8@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <4A2D5EDF.2000508@webrz.net>

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Mike Jeays
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On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Found another solution (for running @ 23:58):
>
> 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /myscript
>
> thanks for all other suggestions,
> Jos Chrispijn
>
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Isn't that a linuxism? Looking at the man pages for the date command for 
FreeBSD, it looks as if 'date -v+1d' will return tomorrow's date (and it does, 
I checked). The -d option is to do with daylight saving time.



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