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Exit Values
Portability
v NLSPATH
Related Information
dirname
See Appendix F, “Localization” for more information.
0 Successful completion
1 Failure due to any of the following:
v Unknown command-line option
v Incorrect number of arguments
POSIX.2, X/Open Portability Guide, UNIX systems.
batch — Run commands when the system is not busy
Format
Description
batch
batch lets you run commands in batch mode. It reads the commands from the
standard input (stdin). The system records the commands and runs them at a time
when the system load is relatively low (that is, when the system is not busy).
The batch command is equivalent to
at –q b –m now
For more details, see at.
at, batch, and crontab submit jobs to cron; the data in those jobs may contain
doublebyte characters. When the jobs are run, the data in the jobs are interpreted
in the locale that cron is using. Since it is strongly recommended that cron be
started in the POSIX locale, doublebyte characters in the job may not be interpreted
correctly. You may be able to get around this by calling setlocale() in the job itself.
Environment Variables
batch uses the following environment variable:
Localization
SHELL
Contains the name of the shell command interpreter used to invoke the
batch job.
batch uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
basename
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