WOT: Scripting Question[Scanned]

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jul 28 14:37:24 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 07:24 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> The Cygwin tools: http://www.cygwin.com will give you a
> bash and all the usual unix utility programs on a windows
> box. X too if you want it, but it isn't in the default
> install - you have to select it.

There's also something which gives you DOS versions of many useful *IX
commands (grep, etc.).  Those ought to be directly usable in any
Windows/DOS scripting, without the baggage of Cygwin.

See:  <http://www.openetwork.com/berk.html>

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