Want an email reminder? -- Linux Tip #1
If you want to be reminded of something you have to do at a certain time, use the at command
at 11am at> mail me -s "Time to leave" -m "Meeting in the office"
This will send ‘me’ and email at 11am to remind me about the meeting.
at 7am at> xmessage "You have a meeting on `date +%m/%d/%Y`"
This will pop up a simple X-Window box with the message “You have a meeting on 03/07/2006” (if it is the 6th of March of course). The man page for at gives you some more options to setup this simple utility.
Eric Davis
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