Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cronjob + sed

[linux1974 <claudio at vodafone dot ie>]

Hi 

I am not familiar with cygwin, where I can find the packages crontab and VI?
tks


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.
> 
> Brian
> 
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