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| Chapter 2 UNIX Commands |

## batch

    batch

Execute commands entered on standard input. End with `EOF`. Unlike at, which will execute commands at a specific time, batch executes commands one after another (waiting for each one to complete). This avoids the high system load caused by running several background jobs at once. See also at.

### Example

>     batch
>     sort in > out
>     troff -ms bigfile
>     EOF

Reference: basename |  | Reference: bc