On Jan 28, 2008 2:26 PM, Scott Ehrlich <scott@mit.edu> wrote:

Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first
Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C,
etc.?

I think you can make cronjob run on every Friday, and in your script
check if date is 2nd (3rd) Friday.

OTOH, if you specify days and day of week, I think they will both match,
which is not what you want.

I found this with google:
<http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/2731.html>

Which leads to something along these lines ...

day=`date +%d`

if [ $day -ge 8 -o $day -le 14 ]; then

echo '2nd Friday'

# do F2

elif [ $day -ge 15 -o $day -le 21 ]; then

echo '3rd Friday'

# do F3

fi

HTH,
-Bob