Unix toolkit for Windows

[Tim Medford]

Does anyone know of a decent Unix toolkit that runs on top of Windows. These tools allow you to use Unix shell commands in DOS.

I used to own one built by Reed-Kottler, but I can't find them on the Web anymore.

I need to write some fairly sophisticated scripts that run under windows and I dread the thought of kluging together a bunch of .BAT files.

Thanks in advance,
Tim

[Jeff Machols]

here is a ksh for windows

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

[Jeff Machols]

or if you would rather have bash (plus this is gnu) you can go here

http://www.gnusoftware.com/ilink/ilink.cgi?Category=Shells%3ABash

[Mark Greene_1]

here's a stand-alone dll from RedHat that provides some unix tools in the windows environment:

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

I'm not running this, so cannot comment on how well it does or not.

HTH
mark

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Tim:

Though not free, the best that I know of is the MKS Toolkit. http://www.mkssoftware.com/. It pretty much has everything. awk, grep, sed, shell, ...

Plan B. Try using Perl which is available for free at http://www.activeperl.com. The nice thing about this approach is that your scripts will run on both UNIX and Windows often with no modification. I truly love a scripting language that will let me do sockets and combines the best features of awk, grep, sed, and the shell. It's pattern matching is like awk or sed on steroids.


Regards, Clay

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

As suggested by Clay, I would go for MKS toolkit. I implemented NNM at one customer's site and they were insisting to install it on Windows NT server. So, I made them to buy MKS toolkit so that I could feel native to WindowsNT. We did generate some nice reports using MKIS toolkit. You get almost every general unix utility from it.

-Sri

[Gregory Fruth]

Cygwin (mentioned above) is excellent!
It provides a Unix-like command line (bash,
ksh, csh, sh, etc.), the usual commands (cp,
mv, awk, etc.), and enough APIs so that you
can write programs as if you were on a Unix
machine.

There's even an Xserver you can run on it.
It has a graphical installer, and can be updated
automatically over the Net.

It almost makes using a Win**** bearable, as long
as you don't have to leave the Cygwin terminal
window! :-)