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Microsoft has been working towards cool for a few years. All they need for me to never move away is a native POSIX shell.
by debacle 14y ago
Microsoft has been working towards cool for a few years. All they need for me to never move away is a native POSIX shell.
- sp332 14y agoYou can install Services for Unix, it comes with the Korn shell.
- meanguy 14y agoThe shell really is inexcusable. Ever seen this? So close yet so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX I moved to cygwin+bash years ago which is 95% there -- and boy does the 5% have really sharp edges.
- debacle 14y agoI use MSYS right now, which does an okay job for what I need it for, but it can be confusing when the MSYS grep isn't the same as the GnuWin32 grep (GnuWin32 has -P, MSYS grep doesn't).
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoPOSIX isn't divine and infallible. PowerShell is actually quite nice, save for the arcane Windows console UI. I still prefer zsh, but that's no reason to immediately discard a competitor.
- debacle 14y agoI have a windows workstation. Every single server I interact with is POSIX. POSIX isn't divine and infallible and PowerShell is nice, but it isn't as ubiquitous and I only have enough patience for one arcane shell language.
- revolutions 14y agoTry http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/. It's wonderful.