Martin, I suggest that you look at cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ for a Unix/Linux like environment on Windows. All the commands you've mentioned are available as precompiled windows binaries.
Alternatively, you could also try MKS Toolkit http://www.mks.com/ but it's not free and in my opinion not worth the expense. Cheers, Carter. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin Leese > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: UNIX utilities in Perl > > > Hi, > > I am not sure if this is the right list for this question. > I suspect it belongs on a list about CPAN, but the CPAN > site doesn't appear to mention one. > > I am working on Windows, and find I keep writing very > short Perl scripts to implement UNIX utilities. I call > them zap_grep, zap_wc, zap_unique, zap_diff, zap_sort. > My versions are very crude compared with the UNIX > originals, and I wondered if somebody had already gone > through this exercise. > > A search of CPAN came up with "prep" (Perl grep), "wc", > and "uniq". > Are these modules collected together anywhere? > Should they be? > What additional UNIX utilities would be useful? (Above, > I suggest diff and sort.) > > What would be *really* useful is a method to pipe > filters together. > > Regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
