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Re: Help with cron job



 Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> I want to set up a cron job on a linux box that dumps the filesystem 
> once a week and date-stamps the file with the format dump-ddmmmyy, where 
> ddmmmyy represents the dateMonthYear of the backup.. 
> 
> I've got the line figured out except for the variable date-stamp - how 
> do I create that? 
> 
> Also, does cron provide the flexibility for me to say "do this all but 
> the last Friday of the month"?   I learned about the L suffix for the 
> last whatever, but leading up to it.   I want to introduce some 
> flexibility for months that may have five Fridays vs four. 


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