Cron jobs and holidays

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:53:57PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> How would you ensure that a cron job was not run on a statutory holiday?
> My current thought was
> 
> 4 4 * * 2-6 grep `date +%Y%m%d` /etc/holidays 1>/dev/null && my_script
> 
> Using this method the holidays file is kept manually.  Is there a more
> elegant and automatic way?

grep -q is more elegant than 1>/dev/null :)

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