How to schedule tasks using at command on Linux

Posted by linuxer on Dec 21, 2017 10:39 AM EDT
linuxconfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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During the administration of a system, being able to schedule a task for a later execution it's one crucial ability: to perform a backup of a database for example, or perhaps to run a maintenance script. Less known than cron or anacron, the at program let us do this in a pretty easy way: in this tutorial we will learn how to use it and how it is different from the programs mentioned above.

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