Crontab running bi-weekly

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi experts,

Need your help to schedule the script(test.sh) bi-weekly in linux machine.
script need to run at every alernate thursday at 9 am .
Please help to run the same.

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In crontab you can set day of month parameter (1 to 31). For example:

    • 4,18 * *
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Or every other week, regardless of the day of the month, example every other Thursday at 9:00pm:

0 19 * * 4  [ $(( $(( `date +%s` / 86400 / 7 )) % 2 )) -eq 1]  && /path/to/test.sh

Note: Please give us your OS and the shell you use to let us make sure this will work for you.

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Thanks Jim,
OS is redhat hat linux and shell is bash.

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Ought to work with a slight correction:

[ ... -eq 1 ]
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Thanks dear!!!!1

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I give start date to enddate like 21st January to 21st February on Every two week so How can I do that.
I had already done R&D for that but not succeed Please help me.

I tried out for Every other tuesday in following way but not success

10 11 18-28 1-2 2/2 script.sh

Thanks in advance.