whoa, how long has that been there?!

[awhyzip]

Yesterday at work I made the most exciting happy discovery of my week. Maybe longer. Maybe since the 7th day of the Omer. And this may sound dumb but here it was:
The DOS Prompt on Win XP Pro will accept unix-type shell commands!
I am happy enough about that that I don't care if non-geeks don't think it's worth getting excited over. And more to the point, I am happy enough that I don't care if "real geeks" think I should identify it as bash/csh/etc commands. I have ls with all its options, and grep, and man, and more....

(It might not be all Win XP computers, maybe they installed something special on that one. I can find out today!)

Comments

[doxasticpirate.livejournal.com]

You probably have all that because you have Cygwin (or some such Unixy program) installed...

hi ariela

[msackton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it defintely isn't on my XP box for work, which is a clean XP install I use for testing.

Still, UNIX style commands are cool. They should be installed everywhere!

Cygwin

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

Cygwin it is!

And thanks for posting... it's warm-fuzzy to know my friends still read this journal even when I've left it fallow so long.