Help with script which reminds ppl its Friday the 13th

[kim808]

If anyone could help, it would be much appreciated. For fun, I'm trying to create a script in KORN shell that reminds people that it's Friday the 13th. I want to put this in the crontab file so as to execute the script. Also, how would I use the banner command to display the date.

Thanks much in advance for any replies

 

[olded]

Kim808:

This should get you started. I haven't tested it from cron. I'd make sure PATH
was set in the script.

Regards,

Ed

#!/bin/ksh

set `date`
# set command sets the command line arguments as such:
# $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6
# Tue Nov 12 23:39:32 PST 2002
if [[ $1 == "Fri" && $3 = 13 ]]
then
# banner the date MM DD YYYY
banner $2 $3 $6
fi

 

[rdbx]

i'm not really shure ( ==> it must be checked )
parameters in the crontab :

"minute hour" "number of the day" "number of the month" "number of the week" "script name"

to start at friday 13 08:00 my script

00 08 13 * 5 my script

 

[jad]

0 12 13 * 5 mailx `/usr/usb/whoami` -s &quot;it's midday friday the 13th&quot; < /dev/null