How to start a script at a specific time of day?

Eggplant Functional
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I’ve been using WAIT as a simple timer to start my scripts in the middle of the night. Is there any other way to start the scripts say at 1AM each morning? Thanks

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To start a script at some future time, we generally suggest using a utility such as cron or the ‘at’ command to run scripts from the command line.

For Eggplant Starter Edition (Green) users, the command line isn’t an option, so you’ll need to do something like what you’re doing now. One thing that may be helpful is to write a generic starter script. For example, if you frequently want to start scripts at 1:00 AM the following morning, you can use the fact that the date function returns a time of noon today to calculate how long to wait like this:

//runScriptAt1AM.script
params scriptToRun
put the date + 1 day into tomorrowNoon
put tomorrowNoon - 11 hours into tomorrow1am
put tomorrow1am - the time into timeToWait
wait timeToWait
run scriptToRun

Then you could just call it like this:

runScriptAt1AM "test23.script"

Hopefully that helps simplify things a bit.