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command to run a command after 30 mins
how to schedule a command to run after 30 mins ?
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you can use the "at" command

or simply

# sleep 1800 && command
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Thanks for the reply.

could you explain more about how to use "at" command ?

sleep command worked fine.


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you can use the "at" command

or simply

# sleep 1800 && command
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with at, the commad would look like this:

Code:
 at -f /path/to/script now + 30 minutes
check

#man at

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