Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:16:50 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: man at [2] Message-ID: <20020308210736.W68770-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020309130225.C26790@k7.mavetju.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020308210736.W68770-100000>