Usability/Usability humor
Friday, March 22, 2002[4:54:32 PM]
The man page for 'at' *almost* has an example. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
at 16:42 -f test_at.sh
Runs the script specified by -f at the given time.
Specifying the time is *very* flexible:
"For example, to run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am tomorrow."
Noon, midnight, and teatime are also options. (For the uncivilized brutes who might be reading this: tea's at 4pm.)
You can also use standard in to give at commands:
at 16:42 <test_at.sh
But it doesn't seem to work to give a command that itself needs input from standard in.
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