1)Cron Table Format
2)Shell command: date
NAME
date - print or set the system date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
DESCRIPTION
Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-d, --date=STRING
display time described by STRING, not 'now'
%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
3)Crontab
# run this job every two weeks
# This one did not work, if you know why, please let me know
#57 21 * * 0 [ (expr #(date +%W) % 2) -eq 0 ] && /home/oracle/run_job.x >/dev/null 2>&1
# Tested on Linux
01 22 * * 0 test((#(date +\%W)\%2)) -eq 1 && /home/oracle/run_job.x >/dev/null 2>&1
run_job.x
#!/bin/sh
echo `date` > /home/oracle/run_job.log