How do you schedule a command to run later in UNIX?

[pX]

I just need to kick off a script later this evening after I have left work, I know there is probably something like this built into the shell....
anyone know?
the other alternative I considered was writing a shell script or something to simply check the time over and over again, but that seem such a waste.....

 

[n0cmonkey]

at

 

[kherman]

sleep #

# is in seconds.

This will put a delay in your script.
works at the command prompt too.

Karl

 

[Buddha Bart]

"man at"

frankly, like most man pages its missing a human-readable explanation, and completely short on examples... but its a start 🙂

bart

 

[Rogue]

Three replies, three different answers. That's diversity. 😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Rogue
Three replies, three different answers. That's diversity. 😉

3 replies, 2 answers. I didnt post kherman's answer because counting seconds is a pain.

 

[FUBAR]

Don't forget about cron if this is something you need to run often on scheduled days

first, so you get the format
man crontab

then to make changes
crontab -e