I would suggest playing with Cygwin - I use it all the time for access to Unix command line tools. I work exclusively with Microsoft at work (MS Gold Partner c

I would suggest playing with Cygwin - I use it all the time for access to Unix command line tools. I work exclusively with Microsoft at work (MS Gold Partner consulting firm BI focused and also app dev). Thus, anything I build for a client or internal use won't be Unix-based, but I have to do a good amount of ad-hoc text munging and data transformation (a good number of CSVs and log files in various formats as data sources) where I can use any tools I need. I appreciate the strength of Unix tools for this.