Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/10/00:30:06
Thomas,
- cpio
Available, though little used, to my knowledge
- flip
Use dos2unix and unix2dos
- more
Available, as is "less" a superior alternative
- find / grep (arg list limits)
All Unix / POSIX systems have argument list length limits,
which is at least one reason why "xargs" exists.
- rev
Unavailable, as far as I know
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 21:02 2002-07-09, Thomas Baker wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:40:39AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > I also installed the ATT ksh -- there was a thread about this
> > two or three weeks ago -- but understand that a KSH package
> > for the standard Cygwin setup is on the way. Have also had
> > some small problems porting scripts, one of which being that
> > "egrep" must always be changed to "grep -E".
>
>Though Cygwin seems to have left MKS in the dust for most
>of the functions I am interested in -- vim vs. vi, mutt
>vs. mailx, fetchmail vs. something-that-didn't-work-for-me,
>procmail vs. nothing -- there are a few commands that I still
>use in their MKS versions:
>
> cpio - is this out of fashion now, or what?
> flip - changes CRLF endings; no equivalent in Cygwin?
> more - sometimes I do not want the text to disappear from
> the screen on exit
> find/grep - the MKS versions can handle larger numbers of
> arguments, though xargs solves the problem in Cygwin
> rev - reverse order of characters in a line
>
>Tom
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