Example--Removing at Jobs

In the following example, a user wants to remove an at job that was scheduled to execute at noon on March 1. First, the user displays the at queue to locate the job identification number. Next, the user removes this job from the at queue. Finally, the user verifies that this job has been removed from the queue.

$ at -l 
852755100.a     Wed Jan  8 13:25:00 1997
852777000.a     Wed Jan  8 19:30:00 1997
858142000.a	    Sat Jan 11 04:00:00 1997
$ at -r 858142000.a
$ at -l 858142000.a
at: 858142000.a does not exist