Re: at syntax

From	General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: at syntax
Date	2011-05-30 23:16 +0000
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On Mon, 30 May 2011 16:04:07 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On May 30, 2011 14:08, in comp.os.linux.misc, schvantzkoph@yahoo.com
> wrote:
> 
>> at adds a week to a day if the day is today. To clarify if today is
>> Monday and I schedule something as
>> 
>> at 10:00 PM MON < foo
>> 
>> it will execute foo a week from today rather than tonight. I'm using
>> scripts to schedule events so I don't want to us TODAY to specify the
>> date, I want to use the generic day of the week. Is there a way to make
>> at schedule an event on the same day or do I have to put a date test
>> into the script?
> 
> Try
>   at 10pm
> for 10 pm today

I need to be able to specify the day but have it do the right thing. The 
script might be executed on any day so if teh script gets executed on 
Tuesday and it schedules something on Monday then that event will happen 
on the next Monday but if the script gets called on Monday morning and the 
event is for Monday night then it will execute that night not the next 
week.

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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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