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Very cool.

Thanks for the info. I’ll have to give it a shot.

=)

This is a very sweet little program. Thanks for the heads up!

Hmm, never heard of UnixKit. I’ve always used cygwin in all the places I’ve worked.

http://www.cygwin.com/

I have used Cygwin myself Jennifer. Cygwin is great if you want to run, in effect, a full Linux on top of Windows. But it’s a big installation and, if I remember correctly, it effectively runs autonomously - exclusive of the Windows shell and file-system.

On the other hand, UnixKit is supplemental to the Windows shell. If its components are installed within the “path” then it becomes completely interchangeable with the shell (ie: one can use “dir” and “ls” in the same shell). It also benefits from a tiny footprint.

Cygwin is simply overkill for what I wanted in this instance.

Sorry, that my question might sound LOL. Is there a possibility to improve UnixKit? For example to add some extra
commands to it? Thanks in advance…

Absolutely, although the process is probably beyond the skills of most users. All one would need to do is to either:

• Install new Unix command binaries in the UnixKit path, or
• Compile Unix commands on from their source on your Windows computer, then install the new binaries in the UnixKit path.

do know where i can get a awk.exe file

Hi Mike,

AWK is available at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/

Great Help.

I am using this http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617 a lot of linux commands for windows shell. It’s great. Just installed what I need. One thing is that I still have to use backslash.