I have a script that writes some data to a file, then when the user accesses another script it deletes the data the original script wrote. Problem is, the user will not always access this second script, so the data isn't always getting removed. So I would like to have the first script schedule a cleanup script to run 5 minutes later.

I was thinking of using cron but I only need to do this once, so I would probably want to use "AT", but I'm not sure how.

So how, within a perl script, do you schedule another perl script to run 5 minutes later?

Nevermind, i just wrote a cleanup script that removes all the data but the last added, and set up a cron job to run it daily.

Although, I guess I'd still like to know of a way to schedule a command to run once at a later time within perl.