On 7/15/2017 2:56 AM, Sorin Adrian Savu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:06 PM, cyg Simple <cygsim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 7/14/2017 1:27 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: >>> On 2017-07-12, Bryan Dunphy wrote: >>>> I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits >>>> for an external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the >>>> volume’s root directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. >>>> How do I get the script to be run repeatedly until successful exit >>>> under Cygwin? >>>> >>>> Here is the unmodified Mac OS version of the script: >>>> >>>> #!/bin/bash >>>> if ls /Volumes/Shared >/dev/null 2>/dev/null >>>> then >>>> rsync -avz --compress-level=9 --delete-during --partial --exclude >>>> 'cache/' aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg /Volumes/Shared/Project-Gutenberg >>>> exit 0 >>>> else >>>> exit 1 >>>> fi >>> >>> Let the name of your script be "myscript". The following will run >>> myscript every two seconds until it succeeds. >>> >>> while ! myscript; do sleep 2; done >>> >>> This is really a bash programming question and is not specific to >>> Cygwin. >>> >> >> In reality the OP script appears to be executed in a crontab system and >> executed every X minutes. So a change to the OP question is needed >> which is answered at[1]. Let's remember some people have no real clue >> as to what question they should ask and we need to interpret what is >> being asked into what should have been asked. If interpretation isn't >> possible then asking for a use case would be warranted. >> >> [1] >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/707184/how-do-you-run-a-crontab-in-cygwin-on-windows > > > Actually, the correct question would be: how do I run a bash script > when a USB stick is mounted ? > > Which is doable via Task Scheduler and a event log trigger. See > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_programs/task-scheduler-how-to-automatically-synchronize-my/45a49d83-b1d8-4d37-8896-3d2696cf9795 > on how to locate the appropriate event, > > As for the script: > > - don't use ls for checking file/directory presence use -f/-d (man test) > - you will need to adjust paths (cygwin has windows drives under > /cygdrive (cygpath -h) >
And don't forget the user has the option to change /cygdrive to something else including / which is my preference. > On how to run the script from Task Scheduler use an action like this: > > C:\Tools\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -c /cygdrive/c/tools/cygwin64/home/bryan/bkp.sh > (adjust your paths accordingly ) Yes, if you don't want to run cygserver, this is another option. But if you're moving from a *nix based system then using cron under cygserver is what you want. -- cyg Simple -- 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