Linux.com: CLI Magic: at Tricks

“Are you looking for a reliable scheduler to help you automate
your processes? You may not realize it, but you have a useful
command-line tool for scheduling jobs at your
fingertips–at.

“at does exactly what it sounds like–it does a job
at a set time. For instance, the command who >
/tmp/who-list.tmp | at 16:30 September 1 will run
who, save the output in a file (/tmp/who-list.tmp),
and do it at 16:30 on September 1 of the current year. If you want
to run it for a future year, you can specify the year on the
command line after the day of the month…”

Complete
Story