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From:	Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Calling bash shell from W2K batch script
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:44:09 -0700
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Jared Ingersoll wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if someone could provide the syntax for calling a cygwin shell script from the Windows 2000 cmd prompt. I'm trying to do something like this:
>
>d:\>start c:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "./script1.sh"
>
>But it doesn't seem to be working quite right, some pipes and such don't work and I can't execute a command in the script like > file.`date +%Y%m%d`. What I'm trying to do is write a cygwin script to execute some mixed NT commands and unix commands to check some network stuff, move around some files etc. The reason I want to do it this way is to use windows task scheduler to automate the task on a nightly bases.
>
Alternative: Use cron!
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