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Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2002 02:56:24 +0100
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To:	"Jeff Lu" <jklcom AT mindspring DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How to set up crontab file in cygwin?
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Hallo Jeff,

Am 2002-01-06 um 00:26 schriebst du:

> This really helps.  Are any commands that I can use in the crontab file
> such as telling it to run a particular script on certain of the week?

> Here's what I want to do:

> I want to run pg_dump daily.  And I have 7 scripts namely
> mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat & sun

> I want it to execute the corresponding script for day
> For example today is Saturday, the cron with execute the script sat.

> Is there some documentation with all the commands I can use?

As I stated earlier, from $ man 5 crontab:

   5 4 * * sun     echo "run at 5 after 4 every sunday"

And please keep the conversation on <cygwin at cygwin.com> list
so other users may learn something too;)

Gerrit
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