RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah... -- MIDRANGE-L

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Isn't it rm -rf / to prompt on a unix machine?

-----Original Message-----
From: Metz, Zak [mailto:Zak_Metz@G1.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

Oops, you forgot to prompt the command to get the syntax right.

Oh wait...you can't.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@dbg400.net]
> > Just for reference, using 'at' for one-off tasks like this would be
> > easier on *nix systems than cron
> > 
> >  myscript | at 04:00
> 
> Ack, should have been:
> 
>   echo 'myscript' | at 04:00

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