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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to schedule my script without crontab Post 302323591 by Phi01 on Monday 8th of June 2009 11:37:34 AM
Old 06-08-2009
Very Interesting Command, i never came by this before. But can you correct me on this if i'm wrong.

The "at command" does not have an every day feature, so away around this is by having it invoke itself in a script.


# my.daily runs every day
at now tomorrow < my.daily
daily-processing

So here, my.daily is a script that is written like this
Code:
at now tomorrow

Then when the user runs there script and in the parameters they have the keyword "tomorrow"
So this insures tomorrow is always recurring.

so an example of this would be:

Code:
$ at 1145am now tomorrow < my.daily
at> cc -o foo foo.c
at> ^D

Did i get this right?

Thanks.

 

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gnome-schedule

GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)

NAME

       gnome-schedule - GNOME GUI for users' crontabs

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-schedule [option...]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of cron or anacron and at to manage a user's crontab file and provide
       an easy way to schedule tasks. It supports recurrent tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future.  The  user  interface	translates
       cron strings into human-readible form for ease-of-use, but also has an expert option for those familiar with the cron file format.

       For documentation on interactive use of gnome-schedule, select the Help menu option while running the program.

OPTIONS

       gnome-schedule  supports  the standard GTK+ and GNOME command-line options, most of which need not be used except in special circumstances.
       To view a complete list, see gnome-schedule --help.

BUGS

       There are currently no known bugs. If you encounter one, please report it using reportbug gnome-schedule.

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), crontab(1), crontab(5), anacron(1), at(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>, and revised by Christine Spang <christine@debian.org> for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

								 November 22, 2007						 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)
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