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Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blair Sutton" <>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM
Subject: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe


| Hi
| 
| This is a very simple patch for Cron to allow one to use a shell like
| powershell or cmd. I've done some testing and it appears to work well.
| 
| I simply introduce a new environment variable called SHELLSWICTH that
| defaults to "-c" if not used. Otherwise, one can set it to "/c" or
| "-Command" for Windows shells.
|

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Hi Blair,

I maintain cron for cygwin, thanks for your contribution.
There are other simple ways to achieve your goals,
without changing cron.

For example SHELL could be /some/path/sh2powershell
and sh2powershell be a sh script such as
#! /bin/sh 
shift
exec powershell -Command "$*" 

Wouldn't that work as well for you?

Pierre

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