On Wed, 7 May 2008 10:40:11 -0500, Russell McGaha <RussellMcGaha at mac.com> wrote: > Folks; > Do any of you know of a script callable from BASH, that will / can > say if today (or a given date) is the first business day of the month?? Russell, A few minutes on google turned up the following: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2006-09/msg00059.html This is a decent solution if cron jobs is what you're working with... You should be able to peel out what's there to help build a shell script, though. Eric Crist