I am trying to set up my home, office, and a server to auto update my R packages once a week. I have a cron job on the server and a scheduled task on the other two pc's that are scripts. The batch script is rem #!/bin/bash rem cron job for updating R weekly rem #options(echo = FALSE) set Rloc="\Program Files\R\bin\" set script=\Libraries\R\ %Rloc%R CMD BATCH %script%updatepackages.R I also have a similar bash shell script for the server. These scripts call the R script updatepackages.R which is options(echo = FALSE) update.packages(ask=FALSE,repos="http://cran.r-project.org") My question is there a way to pipe the two R commands in the shell scripts so I do not have to have a seperate R script on my pc's or my server? If anyone has a better idea, I would appreciate their comments and suggestions. Thank you Joe W. Byers