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You might try cygwin, which installs inside winDos pretty automatically, and gives you 99% UNIX system view and access to the open source apps. A critical part of UNIX scripting, the fork(), is pretty slow in cygwin, but OK for learning and occasional use. Then, take some bash tutorials. You might not want to go back!
Another pretty painless way, gui oriented, is to load Ubuntu over winDos and run that. It has a very windows like feel, but the command line still is there to do its thing.