Todoist Last Day Of Every Month

Todoist Last Day Of Every Month 2019
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Todoist Last Day Of Every Month

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Using recurring and repeating tasks in Todoist is a great way to save a lot of time and to stay on top of all of your tasks that occur regularly, or at least more than once.

When setting up a task in Todoist, to make it recurring you fill out the task information as you normally would, but when it comes to the time / date field you make some small changes.

Hi Che Siung, This function will return TRUE if the date you pass to it is the last day of the month for that date. So the 29th of February is the last day of February this year.
Every second Friday of the month: every 25th OR every 25: 25th of every month: every jun 25th: Every June 25th: every last day: Last day of every month: every day starting may 5 OR from may 5: Every day starting May 5th: every day ending may 5 OR until may 5: Every day starting today and ending on May 5th: every day for 3 weeks: Every day for.
Todoist will automatically create the task so that you can check it off daily; when you check it off on Monday, Todoist automatically creates it again to be accomplished on Tuesday. For weekly tasks, you can type “pay kids allowance every Sunday.”.

For example, if you want a daily reminder you would type in “every day” in the date field and it would become recurring every day (remember – every day is ever day, including weekends!). If you only want weekdays you would type in “every weekday”.

There’s lots of date formatting options that gives repeating tasks a lot of flexibility – you can find more of them here on the Todoist date formatting guide.

This is also important to know about if you are using IFTTT and Todoist – you’ll need to make sure you have your date formatting correct or you may run into some real issues.

(You can find out more about integrating IFTTT and Todoist to automate some really handy processes here: IFTTT & Todoist Gmail Automation Article)

Another area where date formatting for recurring tasks can come in handy is setting start and end dates.

As an example, let’s say you had a project with a new task that came up, but you only need reminders through the end of the week. If today was March 23 and Friday was March 25, you would type in “every day ending March 25”. You can also do this for starting dates to set up a recurring task in the future!

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Cron is an great scheduling tool, but it does have its limitations. For instance, it is very easy to run something every day, month, day of the week etc. at a specific time. Practically all Linux distros also have helpers such as cron.daily directories that allow you to place scripts or symlinks in them to make cron super easy to be used/abused.

However, there is one thing that cron is not so great at … running jobs on the nth Monday, Tuesday … Saturday, or Sunday of the month. Part of the reason for writing this post is I have seen a lot of wrong, half right, or overly complicated ways to do this.

So let’s choose an example. I have been tinkering with ZFS on Linux as of late. One piece of good practice in ZFS RAID is to “scrub” your arrays periodically to sniff out silent data errors. However, one doesn’t need to do this too terribly often. I’m using enterprise SAS drives and ECC RAM in my particular situation, so running a scrub once per month is plenty. Also, ZFS does not run a scrub operation automatically or via a daemon. You have to run it manually or via cron.

In my case I decided that running a scrub every first Sunday of the month at 2AM would do the trick and keep things off hours. This is where cron shows its limitations. I found a lot of suggestions to create a crontab similar to

On the surface, this looks pretty brilliant. Run at 2:00AM on dates that are the 1st through the 7th AND are a Sunday. The first Sunday of the month will have to be in the range of the 1st through the 7th, right? Wait… except for the fact that cron parses this as an OR and not an AND! So this will run at 2AM on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th of the month AND on every Sunday. That’s not what I want.

The trick is one can’t solve this strictly through cron syntax. We need to recall our friend the operator &&. For those of you not familiar with &&, && tells a script not to move on unless the code preceding the && was successful, that is, exited with an exit 0.

So we can construct a cron like this:

Please note the specific use of backticks and single quotes/apostrophes.

So what is this saying? Cron will execute this every 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th of the month at 2AM. However, the command I am asking cron to execute will only proceed past the && IF the day of the week is Sunday. So, while cron is running this more than I would like, the script won’t execute the code after the && unless it is Sunday.

Likewise one can use 0 2 8-14 * *, 0 2 15-21 * *, or 0 2 22-28 * * for the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th weeks of the month respectively.

Note, this is the same as running date +%a from the command line with some escape characters to allow cron to parse the command properly. The date command has a lot of helpful FORMAT options that you can use for other esoteric scheduling tasks in this same manner. Take a look at date --help for a complete list.

Last X day of the month (some months have 5 weeks!) is a bit more work. In this case one can use a separate script. Cron is limited to a single sub-shell making multiple backtick statements a mess. Therefore my script will look like:

What this does is uses Linux’s built in cal utility to determine if today is actually the last day of its type in the month. This is saying “If today’s date matches the date of the last day X of the month, then execute past &&. The secret is in the awk '{print $1}'. If we look at the output of cal we see:

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$1 in the awk statement tells awk which column to print. For example, $1 is Sunday, $3 is Tuesday and $6 is Friday. Therefore, print only the column for the day of the month I want and choose the last date of that day using tail. Then, compare it to today’s date and if they match, move past the &&.

The cron is dead easy as we’ll let the cron execute daily at our specified time, but let the script above determine if it is the correct day of the month to run

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To play with this in Bash you have use a simplified form like this date +%d and cal | awk '{print $1}' |awk '{print $NF}' |grep -v '^$'| tail -n 1

Todoist Last Day Of Every Month

So let’s say I want to test this to see if today is the last Tuesday of the month. I am writing this on November 25, 2016 which is a Friday; obviously not the last Tuesday of this month. date +%d tells me 25 and cal | awk '{print $3}' | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -v '^$' | tail -n 1 tells me 29. 25 != 29 so today must not be the last Tuesday of November 2016! Therefore, do not pass && thereby never run /sbin/zpool scrub BlkStore.

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