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I would suggest setting it up as you would a recurring cronjob with your day/time etc. Then after it is complete you can just go and move your script out of your crontab or run crontab -r to remove all cron jobs. You can verify your cron jobs that are scheduled with crontab -1 command. Hope this helps.
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I would suggest setting it up as you would a recurring cronjob with your day/time etc. Then after it is complete you can just go and move your script out of your crontab or run crontab -r to remove all cron jobs. You can verify your cron jobs that are scheduled with crontab -1 command. Hope this helps.

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Thx<br />
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But trying to avoid manual or dependent script <br />
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Plus we have other jobs runs as well in different timings. Is there a crontab syntax which execute only once pls?
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Thx

But trying to avoid manual or dependent script

Plus we have other jobs runs as well in different timings. Is there a crontab syntax which execute only once pls?

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cron jobs always recur.<br />
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at jobs are the run once jobs.
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cron jobs always recur.

at jobs are the run once jobs.

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Hi experts, <br />
Have a schedule job which I would like to execute at 2am with crontab expression (command). <br />
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Question is How can I write it to execute only once please?<br />
<br />
I know it defeats the purpose, but how to come up with the cmd pls<br />
<br />
Eg. If I schedule it for tomorrow 2am, it should execute at 2 and it should never re-execute <br />
<br />
Thanks in advance
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Hi experts, 
Have a schedule job which I would like to execute at 2am with crontab expression (command). 

Question is How can I write it to execute only once please?

I know it defeats the purpose, but how to come up with the cmd pls

Eg. If I schedule it for tomorrow 2am, it should execute at 2 and it should never re-execute 

Thanks in advance

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