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sujit DOT menon AT tcs DOT com wrote:
> Hi "CygWinners" { :) (C) Sujit Menon },
> 
> Can anybody help me write a cron or at batch job using cygwin.
> 
> I want to run a script every Tuesday morning. The script directs certain
> files which it picks up from my windows directory system, which is why
> cygwin is helpful rather than using a Solaris machine and mapping it to
> windows using Samba server.
> 
> I would appreciate if you give me the correct syntax used for the same.

Syntax for what? The shell script, or crontab entry, how to reference a
windows directory in cygwin? You need to be a little more specific.

For crontab see "man crontab".

For shell questions either "man bash" or usenet ng comp.unix.shell.


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