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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-10-22 06:41:05 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2022-10-22 06:41:05 +0000
commit7fd724a286be8c6350762cf337556a74870a8501 (patch)
tree0b35c0fa8b7f304765133fae75a25eb541e60091 /usr.bin/at/at.1
parent07735566ed7cf4d139e7e1b3b35c37e55fb7f7b8 (diff)
rework the text to avoid constant 2nd person;
pointed out/ok deraadt
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/at/at.1 b/usr.bin/at/at.1
index 798cec772b0..49e967553ae 100644
--- a/usr.bin/at/at.1
+++ b/usr.bin/at/at.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: at.1,v 1.55 2018/03/16 16:58:26 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: at.1,v 1.56 2022/10/22 06:41:04 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Thomas Koenig
.\" Copyright (C) 1993 David Parsons
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 16 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2022 $
.Dt AT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -167,21 +167,21 @@ It accepts times of the form
.Ar HHMM
or
.Ar HH:MM
-to run a job at a specific time of day.
-(If that time is already past, the next day is assumed.)
-You may also specify
+to run a job at a specific time of day
+(if that time is already past, the next day is assumed).
+It is also possible to specify
.Cm midnight ,
.Cm noon ,
or
.Cm teatime
-(4pm)
-and you can have a time-of-day suffixed with
+(4pm),
+or have a time-of-day suffixed with
.Cm AM
or
.Cm PM
for running in the morning or the evening.
-You can also say what day the job will be run,
-by giving a date in the form
+To say what day the job will be run,
+give a date in the form
.Ar \%month-name day
with an optional
.Ar year ,
@@ -202,8 +202,9 @@ a typo.
.Pp
The specification of a date must follow the specification of
the time of day.
-You can also give times like
-.Oo Cm now Oc Cm + Ar count time-units ,
+A time like
+.Oo Cm now Oc Cm + Ar count time-units
+may be given,
where the time-units can be
.Cm minutes ,
.Cm hours ,
@@ -213,24 +214,25 @@ where the time-units can be
or
.Cm years
(the singular forms are also accepted).
-You can tell
+To tell
.Nm at
-to run the job today by suffixing the time with
+to run the job today or tomorrow,
+suffix the time with
.Cm today
-and to run the job tomorrow by suffixing the time with
+or
.Cm tomorrow .
The
.Cm next
keyword may be used as an alias for
.Cm + 1 .
.Pp
-For example, to run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do
+For example, to run a job at 4pm three days from now, use
.Ic at 4pm + 3 days .
-To run a job at 10:00am on July 31, you would do
+To run a job at 10:00am on July 31, use
.Ic at 10am Jul 31 .
-To run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do
+To run a job at 1am tomorrow, use
.Ic at 1am tomorrow .
-To run a job at midnight in one week's time, you would do
+To run a job at midnight in one week's time, use
.Ic at midnight next week .
.Pp
The
@@ -386,6 +388,6 @@ and
.Nm batch
as presently implemented are not suitable when users are competing for
resources.
-If this is the case for your site, you might want to consider another
-batch system, such as
+If this is the case consider another batch system,
+such as
.Nm nqs .