at Command Examples

Execute commands once at a later time. Results will be sent to the users mail. More information: https://manned.org/at.

• Start the atd daemon:

systemctl start atd

• Create commands interactively and execute them in 5 minutes (press <Ctrl> + D when done):

at now + 5 minutes

• Create commands interactively and execute them at a specific time:

at {{hh:mm}}

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

echo "{{command}}" | at 1000

• Execute commands from a given file next Tuesday:

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