On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 14:54 +0100, Chris Bradford wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 06:04, Chris Bradford wrote: > > > >>>> You are right there, I was hoping to 'reverse engineer' a Unix like > >>>> command, but I'm not having much progress! > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Why try to reverse engineer it? Why not just use the source? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Its a windows box the command needs to run on. > >> > > > > The Cygwin tools: http://www.cygwin.com will give you a > > bash and all the usual unix utility programs on a windows > > box. X too if you want it, but it isn't in the default > > install - you have to select it. > > > > > Do you know if it is possible to schedule a task that is run from within > cygwin under windows? > > The script works perfectly, I just need to schedule it hourly now! Cygwin includes a cron implementation that can be installed or the standard windows scheduler should do it if you either set your standard PATH to include the cygwin tools or set it in a batch files that runs the script. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
