atd: scheduling daemon

Cronjob is a useful tool to schedule repeated job, but when I just need something to be done once without figuring out the cron syntax and then delete the schedule, that doesn't feel like the right tool. Surely I'm not the only one?

I'm not, and there's already someone who wrote the solution: atd.

There are a few ways to schedule a job, but here's how I do it

at 01:00
do stuff
^D

And it will run do stuff at the nearest 1:00.

To view scheduled tasks, run at -l.

This hasn't received updates in 4 years, and perhaps it doesn't need one: it's finished, and maybe it's better that way.