How to schedule command execution 1 month from now?

postcd · 05-04-2014, 04:42 PM

Hello,

whats the fastest way to execute certain command with like X days or month delay?

i mean like:

delay -d 30 rm -rf /root/scriptname.sh

is there anything like that?

unSpawn · 05-04-2014, 05:17 PM

See 'man at'.

postcd · 05-05-2014, 02:50 PM

Already did and i dont know how to make it execute after month or lest say 45 days.

suicidaleggroll · 05-05-2014, 03:37 PM

Did you read it?

It says pretty clearly, in the first paragraph

Quote:

You can also give times like now + count time-units, where the time-units can be minutes, hours, days, or weeks

So it sounds to me like you could use

Code:

at now + 30 days

For more on at's usage, see:
http://www.brunolinux.com/02-The_Ter...t_Command.html

postcd · 05-06-2014, 12:47 PM

Do NOT works!

Code:

at now + 30 days

syntax error. Last token seen: e
Garbled time

suicidaleggroll · 05-06-2014, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Last token seen: e

There is no 'e' in what you put in the code tags, which means that's not the command you ran.

Code:

$ ls atfile
ls: cannot access atfile: No such file or directory
$ at now + 1 minute
at> touch ~/atfile
at> <EOT>
job 40 at Tue May  6 11:52:00 2014
$ sleep 60
$ ls atfile
atfile

Works fine for me...

unSpawn · 05-06-2014, 03:28 PM

...or the way shorter

Code:

echo "/bin/rm -f /root/scriptname.sh" | /usr/bin/at now + 45 days