How to script at job creation?
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Fri Dec 11 11:13:27 UTC 2020
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 11:10 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> > eval $CMDAT
>
> Thanks!
> This is what solved the problem.
> Seems similar to the Windows exec command.
There is a bash exec command too - eval runs the command in a subshell
and returns, exec replaces the running process with the new one.
> The only way I found by searching the net in order to have a 1-line
> command to set an at task was to use the echo trick and pipe the
> output into at as shown.
You could make a function that takes the changing components and
executes at... then each "script" is a one-liner calling the function.
> > echo $ATINPUT | $AT
>
> I guess you forgot the eval keyword here... :)
Doesn't need it.
Regards, K.
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