Robert wrote: > Considering my nebulous request and your apparent lack of expertise in > applied clairvoyance, fine. > The "3rd Monday" part is used in generating reminders to a each of a > group of OldFarts that gets together monthly to inventory aches, pains > and, yes, empty chairs. The "Sunday before" requirement will be used to > run a script (already working) to create a series of image files > containing critical stuff, to be burned (manually) to DVDs to go with me > to the meeting, to be given to a trusted person for safekeeping. > > The following is what I have now, stripped down to the bare essentials > for clarity(?): Looking at the way you've done it, you could to it like this: if [$(date +%d) == $(date +%d -d $(date +%Y\/%m)/$((21-$(($(date +%w -d $(date +%Y\/%m)/21)-1)))))]; then // do 3rd Monday stuff... elif [$(date +%d) == $(date +%d -d $(date +%Y\/%m)/$((21-$(($(date +%w -d $(date +%Y\/%m)/21))))))]; then // do Sunday before stuff else // do nothing :) fi and therefore run the NSS.sh script directly. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 11:01, 5 users, load average: 1.17, 1.09, 1.07 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- "No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." ~ Rita Mae Brown, 28.08.1982