Using ‘at’ to schedule a job in Unix

Unix command ‘at’ can be used to schedule a task at specific time.To get into ‘at>’ command prompt use command ‘batch’.

[leenus@oracle ~]$ batch

at> at 5pm today

at> nohup tar -xzvf oracle.tgz > ~/nohup.out

at> mail -s “Scheduled task Completed” me@myhost.com << ~/nohup.out

ctrl+d to save the job.

To see the scheduled jobs we can give atq

To remove the scheduled job execute atrm -<job_number>

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