crontab - Run a cron job on the first Monday of every month?

I'd like to run a job from cron at 8.30 on the first Monday of every month. The cron Wikipedia page says

While normally the job is executed when the time/date specification fields all match the current time and date, there is one exception: if both "day of month" and "day of week" are restricted (not "*"), then either the "day of month" field (3) or the "day of week" field (5) must match the current day.

(my emphasis)

Does that mean I can't do the first Monday of the month, I can only do the first (or whatever) day of the month? I can't think of a way round it.

Answer

You can put the condition into the actual crontab command:

[ "$(date '+%a')" = "Mon" ] && echo "It's Monday"

Now, if this condition is true on one of the first seven days in a month, you have its first Monday. Note that in the crontab, the percent-syntax needs to be escaped though:

0   12  1-7 *   *   [ "$(date '+\%a')" = "Mon" ] && echo "It's Monday"

Replace the echo command with the actual command you want to run. I found a similar approach too.