Hello bakunin,

Thanks for the detail explanation. This does help me in understanding.

Actually we are migrating our projects from unix server to windows 2008 server, so there are few scripts which are written in unix shell which needs to be converted to Powershell compatible to windows 2008.

So first i need to understand the unix shell script & then convert it to powershell.

Any suggestions as what will be the best approach to do this.

Few more points if you can help,

1) In below 3 lines, what is the meaning of "cut -d: -f1", i mean what does "cut" do, what does "-d:" do & similarly what does "-f1" do.

Code:

STATUS=`echo ${PARAMS} | cut -d: -f1`
JOBNAME=`echo ${PARAMS} | cut -d: -f2`
EMAIL_ADDRESS=`echo ${PARAMS} | cut -d: -f3`

similarly what does "-f2", "-f3" do.

Is there any online link or PDF file where I can find the meaning of below,

1) cut
2) -d
3) -f
4) -d~
5) echo
6) exit
7) when to use {}
8) whats use of $
9) -z
10) -s
11) ls

Thanks again for your time.