echo "command" | at now - where does the output of command go

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I have a code that does this. Command is a perl script. I don't see the output of that anywhere. Is there a log of at command somewhere which I can check. At is a the fairly common word so I get irrelevant hits on google. Man at does not give any information. Thanks for any answers

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '12 at 18:18

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You can try redirecting the output to a file for easy access:

echo "pwd >> /home/user/file.log" | at now

answered Apr 15 '12 at 18:18

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '13 at 11:48

stdout goes to users mail (root?)

careful command | at now --- yields: the output of the command goes to the "at" program and likely mail will show errors

echo "command" | at now --- yields: the "at" program will execute "command" and stdout will nicely show in mail

echo "command" | at now - where does the output of command go

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