nextday
|
Before my UNIX systems had personal
crontabs (
40.12
)
,
I wanted a way to make an
at
job (
40.3
)
repeat itself
the next weekday (skipping Saturday and Sunday) or, sometimes, every day.
Our
at
was simple-minded and didn't understand dates like
now + 1 day
.
This script with two names,
nextday
and
nextweekday
,
did the job.
I called it from inside my
at
job, like this: |
`...`
|
%
cat atjob
somecommand
sleep 60
at 2325 `nextweekday` < atjob
|
On Thursday, the result will be a command like
at 2325 Friday atjob
.
On Friday, the command will be
at 2325 Monday atjob
; using
nextday
instead, the result would be
at 2325 Saturday atjob
.
The
-n
option returns a numeric weekday.
NOTE:
This script only works with some versions of
date
.
If your version doesn't understand
format strings like
+%
format
,
install the
date
(
51.10
)
from the CD-ROM.
You can install this script from the CD-ROM
or from the
online archive (
52.7
)
.
If you get it from the archive,
ask
tar
to install
nextday
and its other link:
%
tar xvf
archive.tar
nextday nextweekday
x nextday, 1564 bytes, 4 tape blocks
nextweekday linked to nextday
The script tests the name it was called with, in
$0
, to decide
which command to run.