----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Sutton" <> To: <cygwin> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe
| Hi | | This is a very simple patch for Cron to allow one to use a shell like | powershell or cmd. I've done some testing and it appears to work well. | | I simply introduce a new environment variable called SHELLSWICTH that | defaults to "-c" if not used. Otherwise, one can set it to "/c" or | "-Command" for Windows shells. | ************ Hi Blair, I maintain cron for cygwin, thanks for your contribution. There are other simple ways to achieve your goals, without changing cron. For example SHELL could be /some/path/sh2powershell and sh2powershell be a sh script such as #! /bin/sh shift exec powershell -Command "$*" Wouldn't that work as well for you? Pierre -- 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/
