On 08/04/2013 10:17 PM, zGreenfelder wrote: > or... if it really has to be on the first Saturday and only on the first > Saturday, > then running something like > 15 4 1-7 * * /home/app/oracle/backup/monthlybk.sh > > with the top of the monthlybk.sh script doing soemthing like No, really. We went over this. You don't have to modify your scripts. You can put the "test" in the crontab. John's example should work properly: 15 04 * * 6 test $(date +"%d") -le 07 && /home/app/oracle/backup/monthlybk.sh Cron will run those commands every Saturday. On the first Saturday in the month, "test" will succeed and the script will be run.