On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't
> > like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background,
> > particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever
> > such a job is started, an annoying DOS window pops up and it also
> > occupies my taskbar.
>
> Running a Visual Basic program under wscript doesn't open a window.
>
> For example to run a sh script:
>
> --Begin P.vbs--
>
> Dim objShell, intErr
>
> Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
> intErr = objShell.Run("C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe /c/somePath/P.sh", 0, True)
> Wscript.Quit(intErr)
>
> --End P.vbs--
>
> and schedule it as
>
> "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WSCRIPT.EXE //b c:\somePath\P.vbs"
>
> under the task scheduler.
How about "C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe /c/somePath/P.sh"?
Igor
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