On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:52:26AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew,
at reads its job from standard input, so basically you have to $ echo '$yourcommand' | at noon An alternative is to save you command in a small text file, and either $ cat $file | at noon or $ at -f $file noon Hope this helps Regards, Thomas > I'm am unable to figure out the proper syntax of the 'at' command. I've > read the man page over and over. I've attempted Google searches but > there is a lot of 'at' in the world. Can someone please point out > what's wrong with this syntax? > > at noon '/usr/local/bin/curl -u user:pass -d status="New products added > to catalog. Check out the demo videos! - http://bit.ly/7dtLny"; > https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml' > > I've tried various ways of specifying time but always get "at: > incomplete time". However if I just enter 'at noon', then I am in an > interactive mode where I can paste the command, end with ctrl-D, and my > job gets scheduled. What am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Drew > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
