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I have the idea that at is more widespread than batch, and since you can say 'at now' (or 'at $(date)'), at is a better bet. As far as I know, cron doesn't pay
by twic 3y ago
I have the idea that at is more widespread than batch, and since you can say 'at now' (or 'at $(date)'), at is a better bet.
As far as I know, cron doesn't pay attention to load average, but I would love to be corrected.
All of this feels like a very crufty and highly neglected part of Unix, which is a shame. There's an alternate history of Unix where it's all about batch jobs and datagram Unix domain sockets.
- michaelcampbell 3y ago> As far as I know, cron doesn't pay attention to load average, but I would love to be corrected. It does not. Up to whatever you run from cron to deal with that.
- dredmorbius 3y agoat and batch are both part of the same underlying facility. The former seems more known than batch, but where you find one you will pretty much always find the other. On many systems they'll share an integrated manpage.