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Firouziam
Asked: 2012-07-26 11:32:14 +0800 CST

How to start and stop a task using at command?

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I want to start download using aria2c everyday at 02:00 am and stop it at 08:00 am.

I know I should use 

at 02:00 
at>aria2c ....

I don't know how to tell 'at' to stop it! Actually aria2c stops downloading with Ctrl+C and I don't know how to tell this to 'at'!

And when aria2c starts downloading at the given time, it runs at the backgrounds and I don't know how to stop it manually either!

Any suggestions?

By the way, is there any way to do this automatically? I mean create some sort of scheduled task to do it every day.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use pkill to kill a process:

    pkill aria2c

    Of course, you can schedule the killing with at the same way you do the launch.

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