Linux Upskill Challenge

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Day 10 - Getting the computer to do your work for you (linuxupskillchallenge.org)

submitted 6 months ago by livialima to c/linuxupskillchallenge

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I always wonder why at isn't mentioned more in these types of articles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

probably because at appears to just be for scheduling single tasks, not recurring ones - but thanks for mentioning it, since I wasn't aware of it before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah, my bad. I saw the systemd timers thing, and not knowing much about systemd I figured that was an alternative closer to at than cron. Looks like it's more of another unneeded replacement. I use at all the time and only really edit my cron a few times a year. I'd think that I'd learn to read entire articles before commenting.