The following example shows the at job that user jones created to remove her backup files at 7:30 p.m. She used the -m option so that she would receive an email message after her job completed.
$ at -m 1930 at> rm /home/jones/*.backup at> Press Control-D job 897355800.a at Thu Jul 12 19:30:00 2003 |
She received a mail message which confirmed the execution of her at job.
Your “at” job “rm /home/jones/*.backup” completed. |
The following example shows how jones scheduled a large at job for 4:00 a.m. Saturday morning. The job output was directed to big.file.
$ at 4 am Saturday at> sort -r /usr/dict/words > /export/home/jones/big.file |