at Command Examples

Execute commands once at a later time. Service atd (or atrun) should be running for the actual executions. More information: https://manned.org/at.

• Execute commands from stdin in 5 minutes (press Ctrl + D when done):

at now + 5 minutes

• Execute a command from stdin at 10:00 AM today:

echo "{{./make_db_backup.sh}}" | at 1000

• Execute commands from a given file next Tuesday:

at -f {{path/to/file}} 9:30 PM Tue