Perhaps try using the cygstart utility, in conjunction with --hide? >-----Original Message----- >From: Mironov, Leonid {PBG} >Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:59 AM >Subject: piping problems with cron+4nt > >I've got a bunch of legacy 4NT batches I want to run from cygwin cron. When >run from 4NT started from bash these batches work fine but when started from >cron all lines with redirection and piping fail, e.g. when I run > > dir>q > >file 'q' is not created, > > dir|sort > >starts sort and it sits and waits for keyboard input. Also output from >external programs is lost, e.g. if batch looks like > > echo zzz > zip zzz * > echo qqq > >and is run as > >0 2 * * * 4NT.EXE /c >ibackup.btm>>h:\\backup\\bk.log > >file h:\backup\bk.log will look like > > zzz > qqq > >zip output is missing, although zip archive is created. > >Any ideas? > >Win XP SP1, just refreshed cygwin and 4NT to latest bulds whith no effect at >all. > >:), Leo
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