at command syntax

[so.nimda]

hi all,

can anyone help me with the syntax?...

tried executing "at now ./script.sh" but it returned an error "bad date specification"

i would like "script.sh" to be executed immediately... think i'm confused with the tru64 syntax... :(

thanks in advance...

:)

[Michael Denney · Accepted solution]

Try this:

at -f ./script.sh now

[Christine Hartman]

try at -f script.sh now
the man page for at is useful too

[so.nimda]

hi michael,

thanks ! it worked...

:)

[so.nimda]

hi christine,

thanks ! your command worked !... :)

tried the man pages but the syntax showed that the 'now' is after the 'at' as in 'at now'...

guess i'm confused... thanks for the help !!

:)

[so.nimda]

the syntax worked

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hi rancid

You can do like this:

#at -f "/tmp/script.sh" now

I do an example and the out put like:
#at -f "/script/fortest.sh" now
warning: commands will be executed using /usr/bin/sh
job 1136336270.a at Wed Jan 4 07:57:50 2006

Check for the result!

For more detail about at command you can see from the manpage:
#man at


Hope this helps
Hoang Chi Cong

[Andrew Merritt_2]

> tried the man pages but the syntax showed
> that the 'now' is after the 'at' as in
> 'at now'...

Yes, but in that case the commands to be run are specified in stdin. If you want to give the file of commands to run on the command line you need to use the '-f' option.

Andrew