[rsync] Re: rsync and cygwin

[Trey Nolen]

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 <Michael at Hipp.com>
> 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
> >
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