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version 1.10, 1999/06/05 01:21:17

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.Dt AT 1

.Os

.Sh NAME

.Nm at, atq, atrm, batch

.Nm at ,

.Nm atq ,

.Nm atrm ,

.Nm batch

.Nd queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.Nm at

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.Op Fl mv

.Op Ar time

.Sh DESCRIPTION

.Nm at

.Nm

and

.Nm batch

read commands from standard input or a specified file which

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.Nm atrun .

.El

.Pp

.Nm at

.Nm

allows some moderately complex

.Ar time

specifications. It accepts times of the form

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.Nm weeks

and you can tell

.Nm at

.Nm

to run the job today by suffixing the time with

.Nm today

and to run the job tomorrow by suffixing the time with

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.Nm at 1am tomorrow .

.Pp

For both

.Nm at

.Nm

and

.Nm batch ,

commands are read from standard input or the file specified

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.Ar umask

are retained from the time of invocation.

.Nm at

.Nm

.Nm batch

command invoked from a

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commands, if any. Mail will be sent using the command

.Xr sendmail 8 .

.Nm at

.Nm

is executed from a

.Xr su 1

shell, the owner of the login shell will receive the mail.

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The

.Nm c

queue is the default for

.Nm at

.Nm

and the

.Nm E

queue for

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.Pa /var/run/utmp

is not available or corrupted, or if the user is not logged on at the

time

.Nm at

.Nm

is invoked, the mail is sent to the user ID found

in the environment variable

.Ev LOGNAME .

If that is undefined or empty, the current user ID is assumed.

.Pp

.Nm at

.Nm

and

.Nm batch

as presently implemented are not suitable when users are competing for

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batch system, such as

.Nm nqs .

.Sh AUTHORS

.Nm at

.Nm

was mostly written by Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>.

The time parsing routines are by David Parsons <orc@pell.chi.il.us>.