From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 18:16:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474B937B400 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:16:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBE428CA6; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:16:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:16:50 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: man at [2] In-Reply-To: <20020309130225.C26790@k7.mavetju.org> Message-ID: <20020308210736.W68770-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > PL> For some reason I keep getting told "garbled time" or "incomplete tim= e" like when I tried: $ at now + 5 seconds echo "you eeeeeediyutt" > You still haven't read the man-page nor the lines I pasted. There's no need to get snippy; I overlooked the count-time-units too quickly. In my defense, I must say that I have learned more today from all your responses than in all my days so far on this list! Also, when a user gets to see different ways to create the same result (at, sched, sleep, leave, crontab, etc) it translates to facilitated learning and smarter problem-solving later. A great person once said [wrote]: "There are NO problems; Only solutions." > If you would have done, you would have seen that: > - Your syntax for the at command is wrong. > - That there is nowhere a mentioning of seconds in what I pasted, nor in = the man-page. > [... deleted monologue over wasting time ...] > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ If you *had* taken some common elementary grammar classes or instruction, you would have known that your sentence ought to be re-written as: "Had you done so, you would have seen that..." -- just my 18=A2 and a rusty nickel. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message