Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there,

in near future I have to change my work surrounding from HP UNIX to Windows Vista (great to get rid of old hardware , but bad to loose UNIX ). As I heavily use KSH scripts to do my job, I was wondering, if there is any HowTo available, supporting me in re-writing the scripts to match DOS.

Could anyone help me out on this ? The main functionalties of KSH I am using are
- path/file opertations
- using the "function" ability
- basic mathematical functions

Does DOS deliver similar functionality (I fear not) ?

Remark:
I've claimed to get at least a Linux installation, but this was denied. I have to use Windows. The MKS toolkit is requested, but not yet clear, if it will be installed ,

Thanks for your support
Joe

Some things can be done using the Windows command line. But as soon as you need tools like sed, grep, awk, sensible error code handling, ... you're pretty much out of luck.

Just present your boss with a simple calculation: the costs of you rewriting all your scripts to VBscript (or something else), including training, work hours, over time, ... versus the cost of an additional machine running Linux versus the MKS license.

And if they're still not convinced it's worth it (after all, they're moving from an server OS to an desktop OS): install Cygwin

I'm going to second cygwin. I admin 100s of servers, a mix of solaris and RHEL, but use WinXP for my laptop. Cygwin is pretty much the first thing I install. Make sure you choose mintty from the list of shells (it's a really coo/simple terminal emulator).

Hi,

thanks for the info. I am a noob with respect to the different softwares available. I am just used in UNIX programming which really helped me out a lot of times doing a simple thing often again. And yes, I use grep, awk etc. a lot of times...

I'll try to get more info about cygwin.

Thanks again for your help, this indeed gives me some more arguments to argue with my boss

Joe

Cygwin + install cygwin sshd for remote win* host, then you can use remote host as you have done always.