Sending email on a schedule?

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 1 19:22:06 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:06:36PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:11:47AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> >> Thank you William and John.  Yes, I can do all that.  What's missing
> >> from at and cron?  A unified, simple, easy-to-use interface, that's
> >> what.  Remind and wyrd (or calendar) are close, but they don't send
> >> email by default, and that's what I need.
> >
> >If you mean GUI interface to all those time/date fields, then a quick
> >GTK dialog box may be an answer.  If you mean a third-party software
> >designed to read your mind, well... :-)
> 
> Actually, a curses or CLI interface is what I was hoping for.  However,
> if you know of software designed to read my mind, that *would* be
> easier.

Play around with

    select minute in 0 15 30 45; do
	[ "$minute" ] && break
    done
    echo "minute={$minute}"

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