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Old 22nd April 2009
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The find command via cron is much more automated (set it once and forget about it). But at is workable.

I prefer to use at for one-off type jobs, since the at-job is removed once it has executed. Whereas cron is better for continuous-type jobs (like the one you are asking about).
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