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Problem

How to use the at command: Execute commands once at a later time. Results will be sent to the users mail. More information: <https://manned.org/at>.

Solution

at — Execute commands once at a later time. Results will be sent to the users mail. More information: <https://manned.org/at>.

Create commands interactively and execute them in 5 minutes (press <Ctrl d> when done):

at now + 5 minutes

Create commands interactively and execute them at a specific time:

at {{hh:mm}}

Execute a command from stdin at 10:00 AM today:

echo "{{command}}" | at 1000

Execute commands from a given file next Tuesday:

at -f {{path/to/file}} 9:30 PM Tue

List all queued jobs for the current user (same as atq):

at -l

View a specied job:

at -c {{job_number}}

Code Snippets

Create commands interactively and execute them in 5 minutes (press `<Ctrl d>` when done)

at now + 5 minutes

Create commands interactively and execute them at a specific time

at {{hh:mm}}

Execute a command from `stdin` at 10:00 AM today

echo "{{command}}" | at 1000

Execute commands from a given file next Tuesday

at -f {{path/to/file}} 9:30 PM Tue

List all queued jobs for the current user (same as `atq`)

at -l

Context

tldr-pages: common/at

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