Scheduling Jobs
sleep | Wait a set number of seconds, doing nothing. |
at | Schedule a job for a single, future time. |
crontab | Schedule jobs for many future times. |
launchctl | Control system services. |
If you need to launch programs at particular times or at regular intervals, OS X provides several scheduling tools on the command line with various degrees of complexity.
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