Schedule a one-time task using "at" command and intuitive date specifications 

at now + 30 minutes

September 25, 2011 — bashoneliners

Explanation

  • The example will run something 30 minutes from now.
  • Another example: at 0815 wed -- run something at 8:15am on the next Wednesday.
  • With atq you can see the list of scheduled jobs, this is good to confirm that you specified the date correctly and the job will run when you want.
  • With atrm you can cancel scheduled jobs, using the job id as parameter, which you can find in the atq output.
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