I, too, tried it after it was mentioned and it worked for me as well. I think this is going to be my solution. I haven't got everything working yet, but will try to finish it up later today. I was able to successfully build a good file list from a regular CMD prompt, so I called it a night. :-) I thank everyone for their help!
Trey Nolen > Michael, > > While I frequently run scheduled bash shell scripts via a bash.bat file as > you describe, I don't think it is necessary here... I think Trey can run > rsync.exe directly if he really wants to. > > I tested running 'ls /cygdrive' from within a cmd.exe dos prompt and it > worked... > > Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] > (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. > > C:\>c:\tools\cygwin\bin\ls /cygdrive/ > c e f n s > > C:\>c:\tools\cygwin\bin\ls /cygdrive/c > AUTOEXEC.BAT MSDOS.SYS .... > > (I'm assuming rsync would work similarly to ls) > > While I don't know the cygwin architecture details, it looks like the > /cygdrive functionality is a part of cygwin.dll and can be used without a > parent bash shell. > > > Later, > Bert > > --On Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:45 PM -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Trey Nolen wrote: > > > >> But can you do that if you are not running it from the Cygwin prompt? I > >> didn't do that because we were starting it with the scheduler. Will that > >> still work? > >> > > Yes. Write a small 'myjob.bat' file with something like this in it: > > -------- > > @echo off > > C: > > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > > bash --login -i -c "~/myscript.sh" > > -------- > > > > Use scheduler to run 'myjob.bat'. It will execute 'myscript.sh' under > > bash and from there you can do anything bash can do. > > > > Michael > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html