Question

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Jay Ashworth shouted:
> > 
> > ....And I'd simply set this logic to run -every- Friday.  No worrying about
> > dates, etc.  It just flip-flops.
> 
> Yeah, that would work.  :-)  

Of -course- it would!  :)

> Or you could use the %U or %V switches to date, and expr to do modulo 2
> math to decide whether to run:
> 
> [ `expr \`date +%U\` % 2` = 1 ] && dreport blah yada yada
> 
> I *think* I have that right; I haven't tested it.  (It's difficult to
> test things which only change every 7 days.  :-)

Gahhhh!  Math!  *runs, shrieking*

See, the benefit of mine is that you -know- it will work 100% of the time
without even having to think.  :)  Probably the first thing this week I
-haven't- had to test.

mark->
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