How to script at job creation?

[Karl Auer]

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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