Comments on: Last-day-of-month cron job http://backreference.org/2010/04/05/last-day-of-month-cron-job/ Capture and remember Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carl Wenninger http://backreference.org/2010/04/05/last-day-of-month-cron-job/comment-page-1/#comment-24681 Carl Wenninger Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:58:37 +0000 http://backreference.org/?p=1141#comment-24681 An excellent discussion of this topic! Here is a C-Variant of the above Perl-Code. The cmd-part of the crontab-line will look like is-last-day-month && my-cron-job.sh #include <time.h> int main() { time_t t; t = time(NULL) + 86400; return localtime(&t)->tm_mday == 1; } An excellent discussion of this topic!

Here is a C-Variant of the above Perl-Code.
The cmd-part of the crontab-line will look like
is-last-day-month && my-cron-job.sh

#include <time.h>

int main()
{
time_t t;

t = time(NULL) + 86400;
return localtime(&t)->tm_mday == 1;
}

]]> By: waldner http://backreference.org/2010/04/05/last-day-of-month-cron-job/comment-page-1/#comment-24673 waldner Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:01:21 +0000 http://backreference.org/?p=1141#comment-24673 Thanks, fixed. Thanks, fixed.

]]> By: Paul http://backreference.org/2010/04/05/last-day-of-month-cron-job/comment-page-1/#comment-24672 Paul Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:18:26 +0000 http://backreference.org/?p=1141#comment-24672 Typo above with the one liner in the Non-GNU systems section - $perl -e 'print ((localtime(time+86400)[3] . "\n")' syntax error at -e line 1, near ")[" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. The following works for me... $ perl -e 'print ((localtime(time+86400))[3] . "\n")' 4 Typo above with the one liner in the Non-GNU systems section -

$perl -e 'print ((localtime(time+86400)[3] . "\n")'
syntax error at -e line 1, near ")["
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The following works for me...

$ perl -e 'print ((localtime(time+86400))[3] . "\n")'
4

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