From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 14:17:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EF01065673 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:17:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redtick@sbcglobal.net) Received: from web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2B678FC18 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:17:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redtick@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 89337 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Sep 2008 14:17:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=ylcB+k5NhaYCqNHe52cMEE0RDqvVkmM2ttYME5Mrj3fPIaDjg1wSvDzro343210cJsztNfyr34FeencJsJaTVh0o1BPREeZ0eQJUlSviXZLsRbm7EBsvcMkZJUsF14h7vSMadCXd9/rzH37+VXaJCRhdw1IK+8LtwMj2o5Gy68I=; X-YMail-OSG: K80XV6wVM1lejfCZoCSGrw43oeYZdbOo9LiVgGJ3QI_epQIU1Y4NhuQTQWsh_oj2PG8ep9.3XR4L_QuX5HkwzCRqXMqAA8u2.kTknaso7tLl3qofkGjSAYwrYH0vL3UPMsMh5pVRDcOC9Ce5A1jT9CbzuI_s_4iIFg-- Received: from [75.41.234.82] by web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:12 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Busby To: help help MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17473.88889.qm@web81206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: passing variable to at command X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: redtick@sbcglobal.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:17:14 -0000 Is there a way to pass variables to a shell script from the command line with the at command? What I've been trying is something like : at -f '/path/script 20 test' 8:10 091808 : Where 20 and test set variables in the script. I've tried googling the at command for help but there's a lot of "at" in the world. Thanks