Scheduling One-Time Jobs with at
Occasionally, you may need to schedule jobs to run one time, at a time you designate. For example, you could schedule an email message to yourself, reminding you to attend a staff meeting. Or, you could schedule a meeting reminder for your co-workers that includes a meeting agenda. You can schedule these and other one-time jobs using at, which lets you designate a time at which a job (or jobs) should run. Figure 9.1 demonstrates scheduling an email about that all-important staff meeting.
Figure 9.1. To schedules a one-time job, all you have to do is specify the time and the job to run.
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