Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. Also, please don't prepend "[ANNOUNCEMENT]" to subjects of random messages. This string is prepended automatically for messages forwarded from the cygwin-announce mailing list, and is usually used for real announcements.
More below. On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, linux1974 wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > linux1974 wrote: > > > >> How do you set up cronjobs with cygwin? If I want to run a script > >> that uses sed ( does thet standard sed that comes with cygwin > >> supports /s /g etc commands to manipulate a string or do I need to > >> upgrade sed? ) and gets an input file from a windows directory and > >> output a new file on that directory? Tried to look for crontab but > >> couldn't find. > > > > Editing the crontab is exactly as you would on linux, type "crontab > > -e" and edit with whatever editor you've set EDITOR to. When you > > save, it will be installed. Type "man 5 crontab" for details. > > Remember to use POSIX paths, not windows paths in your cron jobs. > > You of course need to install the cron package, I hope that goes > > without saying. To install the cron daemon itself (as a service) you > > need to run cron-config. > > > > Cygwin includes GNU sed, same as on linux. But then again I don't > > know that a sed exists that doesn't support basic regular expression > > functions. > > I am not familiar with cygwin, where I can find the packages crontab and > VI? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages>. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
