When running commands that are going to take awhile, I frequently start them with the nohup command, disown the command from the current session or queue them for later execution. The reason is that if I’m running them from a Terminal or SSH session and the session is broken I want to make sure they complete. To schedule a job for later execution, use at. For example, if I want to perform a simple command, I can schedule it in a minute by running it as an echo piped to at: echo "goldengirlsfix.sh" | at now + 2 minutes Note, if using 1 minute, you’ll need that to be singular.…
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The iTunes Alarm Clock
I know, weak post Charles… Whatever, I think it’s cool so get over yourself – there’s still a little command line fu so it’s ok (right?)… Now on to: How to use iTunes as an alarm clock. I have at times been stuck in hotel rooms and chosen to use iTunes as my alarm clock. Yes, my phones (why does everyone in IT have more than one smartphone these days) can easily act as alarm clocks. For that matter, so can my travel alarm clock, the one they put in the room and the wake-up call. But some of us aren’t morning people and need our fault tolerance. Also, some…