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I have the distinct impression that familiarity with the command line and the Linux's commandline tools give me quite an edge over Windows-based developers I wo
by Confusion 17y ago
I have the distinct impression that familiarity with the command line and the Linux's commandline tools give me quite an edge over Windows-based developers I work with.
- Something wrong with the build? Use ant or maven from the command line, so I can be sure it isn't the IDE screwing things up. Should be possible for Windows developers, but I've never seen'em manage it.
- Need to collect some data from a log file? Grep/sed/awk are often fastest and sufficient.
- Windows desktop search nowhere nears the power of 'find'.
- Hmmm, what port is the JVM debugger listening on again? ps auxwwf | grep java. Ah yes, 9001.
I would feel extremely handicapped developing on a Windows system.
- prodigal_erik 17y agoI contracted at Microsoft a few years ago, and even they didn't use Visual Studio, just vim and a make clone with some extra win32 support (build.exe) and sometimes windbg. I can actually get by on a Windows box with just Emacs and Perl, though I do miss stuff like lsof.
- mblakele 17y agoYou know about the sysinternals tools, right? There's a gui version of lsof in there. http://sysinternals.org/ http://sysinternals.org/ (redirects to MS technet page) I think http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.asp... (Handle) is the lsof-equivalent.