Running a cron job for the last day of the month

[Javier Gostling]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:25:32AM -0800, Mike Koponick wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to run a script on the last day of the month, preferably at
> 23:59 hours. The problem that I am seeing is that each month has a
> slightly different last day IE: (28/29, 30, or 31) I can see how I can
> run the report for the first day of the month, which works fine, but it
> names all the directories/files for the following month, rather than the
> month the report data comes from.
> 
> I use the:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> date=`/bin/date -d now '+%b'`
> 
> to set the date to name the files/directories.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

Mike,

Try changing the date calculation like this:

#!/bin/sh
date=`/bin/date -d yesterday '+b%+'`

That would allow you to run the script on the first of every month and get
the month name of the previous month.

Cheers,
-- 
Javier Gostling D.
<jgd at samwan.homeip.net>