Nicolás Brailovsky

You can easily schedule a command using “at”, which recognizes a nicely formatted date string. For example: $ at today 3:00 AM This will open a prompt. So, for example: $ at today 3:30 PM > wget foobar.com/a_huge_file > C-D Will schedule a download of a huge file, today at 3:00 AM. Nice, isn’t it? To check the whole list of accepted formats check the man for at.

One last note: at will “remember” the current environment variables, so PWD, USER, OLD_DIR and all that will be the same. This means if you schedule a command with a relative path it’ll still work!