Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe

, Blair Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if that's a very good solution. It spawns an unnecessary bourne shell process on each new cron job. Don't worry if you don't want to make the change. I will maintain my own separate branch and perhaps post the patch with some instructions

Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe

everyone's time with these half-baked workarounds. Still, I am sure you mean well. Please don't bother responding. Best wishes On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Blair Sutton To: cygwin Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 4:16 AM

Re: Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe

what you want. And what's wrong with doing this with what cron already provides: * * * * * /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/windowspowershell/v1.0/powershell - Command 'c:\documents and settings\blair sutton\my documents\windowspowershell\test\test.ps1 one two three' This doesn't work. Have you

Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe

it useful. Best regards Blair On 6/5/08, Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Blair Sutton To: cygwin Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe | Hi

Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe

for Windows shells. Typical usage is #SHELL=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/CMD.exe #SHELLSWITCH=/c SHELL=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/windowspowershell/v1.0/powershell.exe SHELLSWITCH=-Command * * * * * echo test 1 2 3 * * * * * ls c: * * * * *'C:\Documents and Settings\blair sutton\My Documents