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  • How to run cron on alternate week on particular week day?

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    All of us have been writing some kind of cron but recently we came a situation where cron has to be fired by weekly on Wednesday. Keeping in mind the client requirement we came to a particular solution.

    Minute Hour date-Of-Month Month Day-Of-Week /path/of/command-script

    Day of week represented in Crontab as follows

    Sunday = 0
Monday = 1
Tuesday = 2
Wednesday = 3
Thursday = 4
Firday = 5
Saturday = 6

    Thus keeping in mind our requirement cron for alternate Wednesday is :

     30 00 1-4,15-18,29-31 * 3 give-path-of-script-command

    We can have similar cron for other weekdays based on the above cron.

    crontab linux 15 days alternate week
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