Re: NT Scripting

check out http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin

These are ports of common GNU utilities to run on NT. We use a lot of the basic one like grep, tail, tee, sed, udate, utime, etc.. inour NT .CMD files.

It also has a bash shell. I have not used it for scripting, i find that I have been doing DOS bat and CMD files for so long, i have not needed it. However, it would be nice to be able to trasparently move my scripts back and forth between NT and UNIX....

hummmmm perhaps I might work on that this weekend.

If you don't like these, there are some commercially availavle Korn shell for NT products available. Good luck...

(PS - Complex BAT files under NT can be a problem. .BAT calles the COMMAND. while .CMDs execute under CMD. Sometimes Command is a little flaky...Use .CMDs)

Doug Coan
Senior Client Server Systems Integrator Aegon USA

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:33:32 GMT, louburr1_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>what is the scripting lang. of choice on NT. We have been using bat
>files but find it is not as robust as UNIX shell scripting (csh or
>ksh). For production enviorments what are you using?
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Doug Coan
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"Live to Learn and Learn to Live" Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 20:48:59 CDT