Any other alternative to at

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 16:34 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 05:13:55PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 02:21 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > > 
> > >     sleep 3600 ; myprog
> > [...for example...] a 2 seconds delay was needed.
> There are far better methods available than simple timing for this
> sort of thing.  Even bash has ways of saying 'execute this only when
> that has finished'.

Of course. But sometimes, simple is good.

We don't actually know what Peng Yu needs. He has steadfastly refused
to explain, so we are all guessing.

It may be an aesthetic objection, because he apparently finds "at" too
"cumbersome".

It may be his 2016 requirement being resurrected, i.e., he wants his
scheduled jobs to run with the full environment of the requesting user,
specifically any defined bash functions (90% of how to do this was
explained in answers in that thread).

A recent post saying he wanted "just the exact code that does exactly
this" suggested to me that it might even just be a homework assignment
:-)

Even though it is frustrating that we can't help him, because he won't
tell us what he needs (only what he wants), we have still had an
entertaining and educational thread out of it :-)

Regards, K.

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