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Using Ruby to schedule jobs with UNIX `at` command
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gistfile1.rb
time = Time.now + 60
queue_command = <<-CMD
at -t #{time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')} <<-AT
echo "ran at #{time}" > output.txt
CMD
system queue_command
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