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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.
Also, please don't prepend "[ANNOUNCEMENT]" to subjects of random
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More below.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, linux1974 wrote:

> Brian Dessent wrote:
> >
> > linux1974 wrote:
> >
> >> How do you set up cronjobs with cygwin? If I want to run a script
> >> that uses sed ( does thet standard sed that comes with cygwin
> >> supports /s /g etc commands to manipulate a string or do I need to
> >> upgrade sed? ) and gets an input file from a windows directory and
> >> output a new file on that directory? Tried to look for crontab but
> >> couldn't find.
> >
> > Editing the crontab is exactly as you would on linux, type "crontab
> > -e" and edit with whatever editor you've set EDITOR to.  When you
> > save, it will be installed.  Type "man 5 crontab" for details.
> > Remember to use POSIX paths, not windows paths in your cron jobs.
> > You of course need to install the cron package, I hope that goes
> > without saying.  To install the cron daemon itself (as a service) you
> > need to run cron-config.
> >
> > Cygwin includes GNU sed, same as on linux.  But then again I don't
> > know that a sed exists that doesn't support basic regular expression
> > functions.
>
> I am not familiar with cygwin, where I can find the packages crontab and
> VI?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages>.
HTH,
	Igor
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