This was exactly the problem. I'm sharing someone else's computer, so I didn't even realize those files were there (i.e. C:/bin/ is chock full of grep.exe, head.exe, sed.exe...). At the start of my script I defined my path and it worked no problem. Crisis averted, thank you! Tom
--------- >From your cygcheck, you have some set of unix-like utilities in c:\bin. Check the setting of the PATH from within the cron job, as I would be willing to bet that your Cygwin bin directory is not in the path and that you're actually calling these non-Cygwin versions of those commands that have no idea what /home/tompagano is. The default install of Cygwin only modifies the PATH through the cygwin.bat file, not via the system-wide setting of PATH in the registry, so by default Cygwin is only in your path when you click on cygwin.bat to launch a bash prompt. Brian
