in reply to converting crontab recurrence pattern to english


See crontab2english. It is on CPAN, just very well hidden. ;-) From the pod:
Example output: % crontab2english | less Setting env var MAILTO to hulahoops@polygon.int Command: (line 2) Run: /bin/csh -c 'perl ~/thang.pl | mail -s hujambo root' At: 8:10am on the 15th of every month Command: (line 5) Run: df -k At: 5:40am every day Command: (line 7) Run: ls -l /tmp At: 6:50am every Monday

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John.