On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:01:59AM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > what would be a command (or script) which would execute a given command > after a certain amount of time? for example I want to run something like > > ./offin 60 poff > > where offin is a script/command, 60 is the # of minutes before "poff" is > executed.
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