On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:27:45 +0200,
al*****@yahoo.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
Grant Edwards <gr****@visi.com> wrote:
On 2004-10-18, Kotlin Sam <xa***********@hotmail.com> wrote:
> For a while at least I have to work in Windows rather than UNIX, which
> is more familiar. I'm trying to do with Python some of the things that
> I've done for years in shell, in particular, sort. The shell sort is
> pretty easy to use:
Sounds like you need to install Cygwin so you have a real bash
shell and all of the normal shell utilities.
An excellent piece of advice. Cygwin has occasionally save my sanity in
the past when the weakness of Windows' cmd.exe was getting to me...!-)
Most of my cmd.exe use is to invoke xxx ..args where xxx.cmd in a path directory
is one line like @python c:\util\xxx.cmd %* (I don't like the kludgy windows
first-line trick that requires xxx.py itself to be named xxx.cmd)
;-)
But, have you tried msys/mingw ? I haven't done a lot with it, but it is nice,
and supports most of the basic utilities including compiler/linker, though
I prefer gvim directly over the vim via msys shell (I probably don't have
the latter configured quite right).
A sampling:
[13:59] ~>ls /
bin doc etc home local m.ico mdk mingw msys.bat msys.ico uninstall
[14:00] ~>ls /bin
awk diff.exe ftp libW11.dll mv.exe sed.exe tr.exe
basename.exe diff3.exe gawk.exe ln.exe od.exe sh.exe true.exe
bunzip2 dirname.exe grep.exe lnkcnv patch.exe sleep.exe uname.exe
bzip2.exe echo gunzip ls.exe printf sort.exe uniq.exe
cat.exe egrep gzip.exe m4.exe ps.exe split.exe vi
chmod.exe env.exe head.exe make.exe pwd start view
cmd ex id.exe makeinfo.exe rm.exe tail.exe vim.exe
cmp.exe expr.exe info.exe md5sum.exe rmdir.exe tar.exe wc.exe
comm.exe false.exe infokey.exe mkdir.exe rvi tee.exe which
cp.exe fgrep install-info.exe mount.exe rview texi2dvi xargs.exe
cut.exe find.exe install.exe msys-1.0.dll rvim texindex.exe
date.exe fold.exe less.exe msysinfo rxvt.exe touch.exe
[14:00] ~>which gcc
/mingw/bin/gcc
[14:00] ~>ls /mingw/bin
a2dll dlltool.exe g77.exe mingw32-c++.exe objdump.exe res2coff.exe
addr2line.exe dllwrap.exe gcc.exe mingw32-g++.exe pexports.exe size.exe
ar.exe dos2unix.exe gccbug mingw32-gcc.exe protoize.exe strings.exe
as.exe drmingw.exe gcov.exe mingw32-make.exe ranlib.exe strip.exe
c++.exe dsw2mak gdb.exe mingwm10.dll readelf.exe unix2dos.exe
c++filt.exe exchndl.dll gprof.exe nm.exe redir.exe unprotoize.exe
cpp.exe g++.exe ld.exe objcopy.exe reimp.exe windres.exe
[14:00] ~>
Regards,
Bengt Richter
