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at: Display a system notification at 11pm on February 18th.
$ echo "notify-send '${Wake up!}'" | at ${11pm} ${Feb 18}
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This command is used to schedule a notification to be displayed on the screen at a specified time. Let me break it down:

  • echo is a command that simply outputs whatever is passed to it.
  • "notify-send '${Wake up!}'" is a string enclosed in double quotes. It consists of the notify-send command followed by the notification message 'Wake up!'. The message is enclosed within single quotes to preserve the exclamation mark within the string.
  • | is a pipe symbol used to redirect the output of the preceding command to the input of the next command.
  • at is a command used to schedule other commands or scripts to be executed at a specific time.
  • ${11pm} specifies the time at which the notification should be displayed. The format used here is 11pm, indicating 11 o'clock in the evening.
  • ${Feb 18} sets the date for the scheduled notification. It uses the format Feb 18, indicating February 18th.

In summary, this command schedules a notification using the notify-send command to be displayed on the screen at 11 pm on February 18th with the message "Wake up!"

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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