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Re: at syntax

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General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I wrote a wrapper that checks the day and fixes it, but I would prefer if 
> there was a way for at to do the right thing itself,

As far as I can tell from the requirement in your original post, "at"
does do the right thing itself.

    at -V
    at version 3.1.12

    # Assuming it's now midday,
    at 10pm today   # tonight
    at 9am today    # fails, because 9am has already happened

I must admit that I don't understand, given you want something to happen
"today", why you are loathe to use the "today" qualifier.

With regards to your scriptlet you pasted, isn't this fundamentally the
same as something like this?

    at 2200 `date +'%e %b %Y'`  # 10pm today, with explicit date

Chris

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at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-30 18:08 +0000
  Re: at syntax Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-05-30 16:04 -0400
    Re: at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-30 23:16 +0000
  Re: at syntax Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-31 09:44 +0100
    Re: at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-31 12:37 +0000
      Re: at syntax Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-31 14:54 +0100
        Re: at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-31 18:52 +0000
          Re: at syntax Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-06-02 21:03 +0100
            Re: at syntax dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Gibson) - 2011-06-02 22:24 +0100
              Re: at syntax Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-06-03 09:34 +0100
                Re: at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-03 13:21 +0000
                Re: at syntax Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-06-03 15:46 +0100
  Re: at syntax Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 02:08 +0000
    Re: at syntax General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 02:50 +0000
      Re: at syntax Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 04:30 +0000
      Re: at syntax Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 04:31 +0000
      Re: at syntax Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 04:31 +0000
      Re: at syntax Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-01 04:30 +0000

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