WOT: Scripting Question[Scanned]
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 14:53:06 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 14:54 +0100, Chris Bradford wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 06:04, Chris Bradford wrote:
> >
> >>>> You are right there, I was hoping to 'reverse engineer' a Unix like
> >>>> command, but I'm not having much progress!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Why try to reverse engineer it? Why not just use the source?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Its a windows box the command needs to run on.
> >>
> >
> > The Cygwin tools: http://www.cygwin.com will give you a
> > bash and all the usual unix utility programs on a windows
> > box. X too if you want it, but it isn't in the default
> > install - you have to select it.
> >
> >
> Do you know if it is possible to schedule a task that is run from within
> cygwin under windows?
>
> The script works perfectly, I just need to schedule it hourly now!
Cygwin includes a cron implementation that can be installed or the
standard windows scheduler should do it if you either set your
standard PATH to include the cygwin tools or set it in a batch files
that runs the script.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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