topic Re: at command syntax in Operating System - HP-UX

at command syntax

so.nimda — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:26:47 GMT

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...

:)

Re: at command syntax

Michael Denney — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:38:37 GMT

Try this:

at -f ./script.sh now

Re: at command syntax

Christine Hartman — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:41:46 GMT

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

Re: at command syntax

so.nimda — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:45:38 GMT

hi michael,

thanks ! it worked...

:)

Re: at command syntax

so.nimda — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:47:49 GMT

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 !!

:)

Re: at command syntax

so.nimda — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:50:31 GMT

the syntax worked

Re: at command syntax

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:01:39 GMT

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

Re: at command syntax

Andrew Merritt_2 — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:20:51 GMT

> 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