I have to schedule some job on every alternate Thursday with Cron. I am not sure How to schedule in job in above case ?

Can anyone help me please ??

You can set the crontab to run every Thursday and then let the script decide what week it is.

 

e.g

 

*	*	*	*	4	./my-cron-script.sh

 

#!/bin/sh

WK=`date +%W`
ON_WK=`expr $WK % 2`

if [ $ON_WK = 1 ]; then
   echo 'Hello World';
else
   echo 'Goodbye World';
fi

 

There are other methods posted up on google as well.

You can set the crontab to run every Thursday and then let the script decide what week it is.

 

e.g

 

*	*	*	*	4	./my-cron-script.sh

 

#!/bin/sh

WK=`date +%W`
ON_WK=`expr $WK % 2`

if [ $ON_WK = 1 ]; then
   echo 'Hello World';
else
   echo 'Goodbye World';
fi

 

There are other methods posted up on google as well.

thanks..........!!!!!!

NP, make sure you set the script to only run once, that code above i posted will run every second of every hour on a thursday...

 

0	0	*	*	4	

 

is probably what you're after