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Poor woman's atd
sleep $((`date -d 2115 +%s` - `date +%s`)) && echo 'dowatchalike'
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reikoNeko commented Apr 11, 2018 •
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If atd is not installed on a machine, you can still use date and a little math to schedule a task for a particular time by using the difference in epoch seconds. (If a long time, hopefully you can use screen.)

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