Suggestion: Add run-parts to Cygwin.

2021-06-29 Thread Joe Smith via Cygwin
The gist is that one can use Windows Task Manager to start a single bash script with elevated privileges and that script can run the scripts in a given directory, with elevated privileges. Various Linux distributions use /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} for this purpose. $ head -5 /usr/bin/ru

Using /etc/cron.{daily, weekly, monthly} on Cygwin (/usr/bin/run-parts)

2021-06-09 Thread Joe Smith via Cygwin
Please add 'run-parts' to Cygwin. I have been using the attached program (copied from Debian) successfully with Vista, Windows-7, and Windows-10. mintty screen dump #!/bin/bash # Name: /usr/bin/run-parts Modified by Joe Smith (joeinwap,gmail) # Purpose: Runs jobs sequentially at reg