thanks for your help here. I was avoiding cron...but it might be most useful here. Is there any way to hide the window popping up by Windows Scheduler??
Steven Monai-5 wrote: > > On 2010/01/09 5:36 PM, aviate wrote: >> >> Hi...tried for a long, long time trying to make this work to no >> avail...and >> did not find help online. >> >> Using Windows XP, I am running a bash script via the windows task >> scheduler, >> which is calling Cygwin.bat ...The command being tasked is: >> >> C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat /myfolder/myscript.sh > > You're using 'Cygwin.bat' in a way it wasn't meant to be used. > 'Cygwin.bat' is for opening an interactive shell in a Windows console > window, not for running arbitrary bash scripts. > > Instead, create a separate .bat file to run your bash script. The > following two-liner should do the trick: > > @echo off > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "/myfolder/myscript.sh" > > Name the file something like "myscript.bat", and schedule it to run in > Task Scheduler. Now every time it runs, a console window will open, and > within it you'll see your bash script's output. The window will > automatically close when the bash script exits. > > Finally, you may want to look into using Cygwin's 'cron' package instead > of Task Scheduler. One benefit of using cron is that you won't get a > console window popping open every time the script runs. > > HTH, > -SM > -- > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/question-with-cygwin.bat-and-Windows-Scheduler-tp27094829p27095212.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
