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at command

Most of the time you login into remote server via ssh. If you start a shell script or command and you exit (abort remote connection), the process / command will get killed. Sometime job or command takes a long time. If you are not sure when the job will finish, then it is better to leave job running in background. However, if you logout the system, the job will be stopped. What do you do?

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You might wonder why would I shutdown my Linux box automatically :/? It is depends upon situation. For example your downloading couple of tar ball and you wanna go home. You can schedule a job to shutdown Linux after downloading is completed. Linux/UNIX/BSD comes with at and cron commands to automate task, common task that [...]

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