[Fwd: Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows]

2009-08-29 Thread Paul McFerrin
--- Begin Message --- Well there is more than one way to kill this cat. Let me add my cocktail. I have a need to automatically run scripts, totally written in cygwin using ksh as my shell. For example I have a number of .bat files performing necessary startup functions: echo off

Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
jprice wrote: I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out of

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread David Christensen
jprice wrote: > I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos > prompt or some other comparable method. > I was hoping there would be some way to ... feed it a string of > commands to execute upon opening I wrote a Bash/ Perl backup/ archive/ shutdown solution for my Windows

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread jprice
Mike Marchywka-2 wrote: > > > >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700 >> From: ddjo...@gmail.com >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows >> >> >> I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos >

Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
jprice wrote: > I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt > or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and > kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually > typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Mike Marchywka
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700 > From: ddjo...@gmail.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows > > > I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt > or some other comparable met