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How to schedule a biweekly cronjob?
This variant on date with %U and %V doesn't suffer from the year wraparound errors that they do.
0 0 * * 3 [[ $( expr $(date +%s) / 604800 ) % 2 ) == '0' ]] && echo "execute script"
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How to have an environment variable with quotes in crontab?
As far as I could find, crontab variables just cannot have quotes and they also can't be more than 999 characters long. The answer to this question is that it's simply not possible.
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How to have an environment variable with quotes in crontab?
man 5 crontab
An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or a cron command. An environment setting is of the form,
name = value
where the spaces around the equal-sign (=) are ...
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How to have an environment variable with quotes in crontab?
The good practice for cron is:
Create script to run the commands
Set variables in script. Also is possible to use external file with variables: source /path/to/file/with/variables
Use full path to ...
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