How the command "at" works?

[Peng Yu]

On Saturday, August 6, 2016, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Saturday, August 6, 2016, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kauer at biplane.com.au');>> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2016-08-06 at 09:34 -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> > I need atd be aware of any bash function defined in the bash shell
>> > when at is called. I don't think this is possible with the current
>> > version of at,
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>> No - but the point of my last message was that it is easy to change
>> at/atd because you have the source code.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean by "be aware of any bash function
>> defined in the bash shell".
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>> Do you mean that there are bash functions defined in your environment,
>> and you want the at-jobs to be able to call them?
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> Yes.
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>>  I just did a quick
>> test with sh functions and they do not end up in the atjob. I'd already
>> discarded my bash mods, so cannot test whether they are passed in the
>> bash environment - you can test that yourself :-)
>>
>> If the functions are not passed to atd, there are several ways around
>> it that do not involve rewriting at/atd, but first tell us if that is
>> in fact what you want.
>>
>> And if it is, do you need your atjobs to have ad hoc access to any
>> functions that happen to be defined by any user that happens to create
>> them, or do you need your atjobs to have access to a particular set of
>> functions?
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Sorry. I mean the former not the latter.

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> The latter. I want atjobs have access to everything (including shell
> varibles and fuctions) in the user shell when at cammand is called.
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>> Regards, K.
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Peng
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