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Have crontab call a program on the first 14 days of the month, which checks a business calendar to execute the job.
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Have crontab call a program on the first 14 days of the month, which checks a business calendar to execute the job.

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cron itself doesn't know about business days, but it can call a program that does.<br />
e.g. a perl program using the function &amp;DateCalc(&quot;1st&quot;,&quot;+8 business days&quot;) in the Date::Manip module, with a config file to set your holidays
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cron itself doesn't know about business days, but it can call a program that does.
e.g. a perl program using the function &DateCalc("1st","+8 business days") in the Date::Manip module, with a config file to set your holidays

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I know you can select a day of month range in your crontab file; 1-31, but I need to execute a job the first 8 business days of the month, every month. &nbsp;Can this be done?
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I know you can select a day of month range in your crontab file; 1-31, but I need to execute a job the first 8 business days of the month, every month.  Can this be done?

Run Crontab based on Business Days

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