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Tue, 04 Sep 2007

On the usefulness of 'at'

I've had this laptop for about three years now, with its installation dating from about 2.5 years ago.

Today, because of a very silly reason, I need to use my laptop as alarm clock. So I did at 08:00, and entered a command to run a media player which will then play some random files in my home directory.

The at command returned this to me:

job 1 at Tue Sep  4 08:00:00 2007

That is how useful at is to me.