X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Chuck Subject: Re: Cron Job Assistance Required Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:26:44 -0400 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/