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bashsudognu-coreutils

Running a delayed command with 'sudo'

I want run a Bash script as root, but delayed. How can I achieve this?

sudo "sleep 3600; command" , or
sudo (sleep 3600; command)

does not work.

Solution

  • You can use at:

    sudo at next hour

    And then you have to enter the command and close the file with Ctrl+D. Alternatively you can specify commands to be run in a file:

    sudo at -f commands next hour