UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have identical scripts on two machines: one a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04, and the other a Windows XP desktop running Cygwin. The files I'd like to process are on the Windows machine. Running the script in Cygwin engages eight calls to an external executable and spins off who knows how many forks and child processes -- the end-up is that it's as slow as a turtle in a half-Nelson negotiating a waterfall. On the Linux box, both with local files and folders and shared folders over my two-machine LAN (hope that rates as one; I don't know what else to call it), it is of course galaxies faster.

I'd prefer not to make every directory I intend to evaluate with this script into a share point, so I was wondering if there was any way to configure SSH or something similar to log into the Windows box and use the Linux shell and system files to run the script.

Looking forward to well-considered answers.

BZT

Depends on what you are doing. You can make calls to programs under Windows to produce data and do all of the filtering on the Linux side.

Consider something like:

ssh remotehost ls | wc -l

The wc -l is excecuted on the local client side.

Or capture the output...

capture=$(ssh remotehost ls)

and then do something with the output.... etc...