CentOS

Schedule cron jobs to run every 2 weeks

4 Comments / CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu / Nico VS

There is no straight forward way to schedule a cron job so that a certain command gets executed biweekly, let’s say every 2 sunday nights… To be able to do this, you need to extend your cron command with a command that tests the day of the week. In my case I needed to perform […]

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Rsync files younger or older than

12 Comments / CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu / Nico VS

Today I needed to copy all files from a certain folder, but younger than 1 month to a remote machine. I knew how to use find of course… and rsync is pretty easy too… Combining these 2 needs some explanation: Finding files younger than 31 days is performed like this: find /path/to/folder -type f -mtime

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