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At and batch
While cron is used to schedule regular tasks, the at and batch commands are used to schedule one-off tasks at some point in the future. The difference between at and batch is that at does a task at a given time in the future, while batch does the task when the [...]
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Cron is the method of getting Linux to repeatedly do a task at regular intervals. For example, it can automatically produce a backup in the middle of the night or save some status information to a log file. It can send an email reminding people to file their TPS reports every [...]
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There are a number of useful commands for dealing with processes. One of them is called top. This command lists, in an continually-updated way, the processes running on the system and has an inbuilt facility to a kill a particular process. However, I prefer using the command ps, in the following [...]
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