[Remind-Fans] Timed events

[Dianne Skoll]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:04:57 -0500 (EST)
"Dan D." <dandunfee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the man page I see one can schedule events to be triggered
> by remind by an entry in the .reminders file.  I not sure I fully
> understand the syntax.  If I want some shell script to run the same
> time each day at 6:00 am., what is an example of a line in
> the .reminders file?

REM AT 6:00 RUN /path/to/cmd

You need to invoke Remind with the "-z" option; however, it's generally
better to invoke Remind once a day from cron and let it handle the day's
reminders in the background; make sure you do NOT supply the "-q" option
in this case.

Regards,

Dianne.