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Old 07-16-2008
At job
Hi I am using at job in my SHELL scripts..
When it prompts to enter the time for at job..I used to press enter(return) button..
After that its running the job properly, but its showing the below error

UX:at: ERROR: Bad date specification..

Can some one suggest how to remove that error.

Thanks in advance..
# 2  
Old 07-16-2008
Not a proper solution but to just not display that error, try redirecting errout to /dev/null, ie. 2> /dev/null.
# 3  
Old 07-16-2008
And what are you entering?
# 4  
Old 07-16-2008
I am just pressing the ENTER (RETURN) button instead of Specifying a particular time...

I suppose its taking the current instance time if we press ENTER...
# 5  
Old 07-16-2008
No, it needs a valid input.
Code:
man at

# 6  
Old 07-16-2008
In most unixes you can start an at job immediately with:

at now
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