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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:40:27 -0400
From: Paul McFerrin <pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com>
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To: jprice <ddjones@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows
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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
        set ENV="/dev/null"
        set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%
        SET IS_CYGWIN=true
        set HISTSIZE=1200
        set HOME="/dev/null"
        set CYGWIN=tty
        ksh -c "C:/cygwin/backup_e

The above "backup_e" is the work horse.  It can be anything from a 
complicated script or starting up anything to running under cygwin.

In this case I'm not providing any parameters that can be added if you 
so desire.  Basically backup_e is an ordinary cygwin script:
        #!/bin/ksh
        #
        #       backup_e
        #
        #       Perform a incremental backup of drive e: of all
        #       files having the archive attribute set.
        #
        #       get list of files ready to archive
        exec 2>/tmp/_backup_tracelog 1>&2
        echo -e "Started - `date`"
        set -x
        cd /e
        /c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd /c "dir /s/b/a:a *" >/tmp/_backupe_1
        if [ -s /tmp/_backupe_1 ]
        ....
        ....

Using this scheme does NOT require you to setup/configure cygwin's 
"cron".  You can use Window's "Scheduled Tasks" feature under "Control 
Panel".

- Paul


jprice wrote:
> Mike Marchywka-2 wrote:
>   
>> ----------------------------------------
>>     
>>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700
>>> From: ddjones@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 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 the question.
>>>
>>> I was hoping there would be some way to execute Cygwin and concurrently
>>> feed
>>> it a string of commands to execute upon opening, but unfortunately I have
>>> not had success with this. There seems to be lots of command line options
>>> for setting display options but nothing that would allow me to feed in a
>>> command.
>>>
>>> Is there any method to do this? Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>>       
>> If you have an icon on your desktop, type the target it should
>> be something like cygwin.bat. You should IIRC just be able
>> to invoke bash with whatever params you need.
>>
>> I just tried it from dos prompt seems to work.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Can I invoke bash with scripts I want it to run as parameters? For instance,
> if I'd like a bat file that would execute bash, and then proceed to
> automatically run a cygwin script at at c:\foo, I'd want something like
> this:
>
> @echo off
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i -execute c:\foo
>
> Bash obviously doesn't contain an "-execute" option, but is there some
> method to achieve this?
>
>   


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