Crontab Issue

[MeganP]

Hi,
I have written the following script to schedule a job to run on 3rd Wednesday of every month, but It is executing on every Wednesday and every day between 15-21 dates. Can some one help me in fixing this bug. Any help is greatly appreciated!

00 16 15-21 * 3 /u11/cdw_prod/Script1.ksh

Thanks!

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:
00 16 15-21 * * [ `date +\%u` = 3 ] && /u11/cdw_prod/Script1.ksh

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[stefanwagner]

Isn't = 3 an assignment, and you need == 3 for testing for equality?

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[PHV]

Stefan, [ ] is a shorthand for test, not the same thing as [[ ]] in ksh-like shells.
And as we test numeric values I think the proper way is:
00 16 15-21 * * [ `date +\%u` -eq 3 ] && /u11/cdw_prod/Script1.ksh

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[MeganP]

Thanks a lot!