Comments on: How to Run a Cygwin Command From Windows Scheduler (Scheduled Tasks)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:49:41 +0000

Glad to hear it : )

By: Diorno

Diorno — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:32:49 +0000

Thanks for this, works perfectly to resolve my Windows shell headaches

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:39:36 +0000

@Ocamler – nice! I’ve updated the bash script in the post accordingly.

By: Ocamler

Ocamler — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:12:47 +0000

If your %HOME% directory has spaces in it, you’ll want to modify line 8 to look like this to avoid an error:

bash –rcfile “%HOME%/.bashrc” -i -c “%myargs%”

Awesome bat file, use it every day for my scheduled tasks.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:32:25 +0000

Thanks, this was very useful and saved time

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:39:40 +0000

An easier way is to call bash.exe and pass the script as an argument:

Example I want a scheduled task that backs-up my scheduled tasks…

Create a one-liner in cygwin /home/brightblueray/bin/schedTasksBackup.sh
schtasks.exe /QUERY /XML > /cygdrive/c/Users/rryjew/Documents/ScheduledTasksBackup/schedTasks.xml

Then create a scheduled task calling:
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
… with an argument of my shell script:
/home/brightblueray/bin/schedTasksBackup.sh

XML to import into task scheduler …

2011-02-02T21:02:10.9135301

bbr-laptop\brightblueray

2011-02-02T09:00:00

true

LeastPrivilege

bbr-laptop\brightblueray

InteractiveToken

IgnoreNew

true

false

true

false

true

false

P3D

C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe

/home/brightblueray/bin/schedTasksBackup.sh

By: JP

JP — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:09:41 +0000

Thank you. This saved me a bit of time trying to figure it out otherwise.

exec >> /pathto/logfile 2>&1 worked for me even using this method.