On Nov 12, 2016, at 4:52 AM, arnoldemu <mem...@arnoldemu.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > That is useful. What would the windows equivalent command-line?
There really isn’t an equivalent because Windows has no equivalents to the key mechanisms used in Andy’s two commands: 1. Command substitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_substitution The closest you could come would be to hand-roll some batch file or PowerShell code to extract the output of one Fossil command and feed it as arguments to another. You’d probably end up with 10-40 lines of batch/PowerShell code to replicate 3 characters — $() — in a Unix shell. 2. xargs. Again, no direct equivalent, requiring a bunch of ugly batch/PS code to replicate a 5-character command name. The solution to both problems is to install WSL or Cygwin: http://cygwin.com https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide Microsoft has given us WSL for a reason: while increasingly powerful, Microsoft’s prior offerings — cmd.exe, PowerShell, ISE — still do not give you everything you get from a proper Unix shell. As for WSL vs Cygwin, that’s a topic for a different mailing list. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
