Schedule a Web Edit

One of the tasks I perform at work is updating the website. Sometimes the updates are time sensitive and need to go live at a particular time to coincide with other activities. It always seems like those times end up being in the middle of the night or early in the morning. Since I am not a big fan of waking up to just update the website I was looking for a way to schedule it. Cron is better used for tasks that repeat, kind of like a Windows Scheduled Tasks and not intended for things that only happen once. I was very happy when I came accross the at command. Using the at command, you can schedule a single run command to be run.

Documentation can be found here Using at for single-use cron jobs in Linux

Format is the command at followed by -t for Time followed by -f for the file you want to run.

YYYY - Year MM - Month
DD - Day of the Month
TTTT - time in 24hr format

at -t YYYYMMDDTTTT -f filename

at -t 202605010445 -f gitpullcibmarine.sh

Will run the command gitpullcibmarine.sh at 4:45am on 5/01/2026

at -t 202604301100 -f gitpullcibmbank.sh

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