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From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver)
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Subject: Re: your mail about running batch jobs in unix
To: hey@tuns.ca (Yingjun He)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:30:21 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971119143820.0092a100@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> from "Yingjun He" at Nov 19, 97 02:38:20 pm
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Anyone knows how to run batch jobs in FreeBSD system? Thank you!
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Sure, use sh or csh scripts.  sh recommended.
Do a man sh or man csh for details.  Also buy a 
book on UNIX which should have some information on
running shell scripts.  You may also want to take
a look at Perl.

For running batch jobs at specified times by a specified
user, see also man at or man cron.

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