Any other alternative to at

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:06:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:37:51 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>>Hi, I'd like to easily schedule jobs using a tool other than `at`.
>>Directly modifying crontab is not an option as it is too cumbersome.
>>Does anybody know alternatives to `at`? Thanks.  
>
>After re-reading this thread from 2016
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-August/286654.html
>I still don't understand what you try to achieve. Consider to discribe
>what you exactly want to do.
>
>Since you are still as vague as possible, I cant resist to post this
>link: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/sleep.1.html

Or how about a loop using "date"?

What's the problem with cron and Co.?

IOW the maybe available "alternatives" are likely related to what you
want to do and/or regarding the reason you don't want/cannot use cron
and Co..