UNIX command-line tools for MS-DOS

[Renan]

Hello,

When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.

Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

Thanks!

[Gerard Bok]

Post by Renan
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.
Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

Sort of :-)
Take a look at www.cygwin.com

[Paul Bartlett]

Post by Renan
Hello,
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.
Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

Yes. Look for UnxUtils.zip. However, be aware that the sed
implementation caused me a problem with compatibility. There
was also HHsed for DOS. SimTel had (may still have) DOS ports
of a lot of the Unix utilities, but searching it is not as easy
as it used to be. You can also try the garbo ftp site,
garbo.uwasa.fi, directory /pc/unix.

[foxidrive]

Post by Paul Bartlett

Post by Renan
Hello,
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.
Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

Yes. Look for UnxUtils.zip. However, be aware that the sed
implementation caused me a problem with compatibility. There
was also HHsed for DOS. SimTel had (may still have) DOS ports
of a lot of the Unix utilities, but searching it is not as easy
as it used to be. You can also try the garbo ftp site,
garbo.uwasa.fi, directory /pc/unix.

GNUsed has an MSdos port - I used it until I found the Win32 port.
A SED afficianado has a nice selection here:
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/

[Renan]

Post by Paul Bartlett

Post by Renan
Hello,
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.
Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

Yes. Look for UnxUtils.zip. However, be aware that the sed
implementation caused me a problem with compatibility. There
was also HHsed for DOS. SimTel had (may still have) DOS ports
of a lot of the Unix utilities, but searching it is not as easy
as it used to be. You can also try the garbo ftp site,
garbo.uwasa.fi, directory /pc/unix.

Will check.

Thanks!

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <***@news.x-privat.org>, dated
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:15:10 local, seen in news:alt.msdos, Renan

Post by Renan
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.
Q: Are those utilities available for DOS?

I find MiniTrue useful for viewing/searching/altering files, at a DOS
prompt; free, DOS/Win/UNIX, <URL:http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/>


Some DOS ports of UNIX utilities can be found via Timo Salmi's Batch
FAQ, ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip .

Be careful with any that deal with date and time; some ports have the
1987-2006 US Summer Time rules hard-coded, with provision for setting
Time Zone and DST used/not. That's all that NorteAmericanos need, so
that's all that was sometimes provided. But you are in America do Sol,
AIUI & IIRC, where things are rather different. Be careful also about
Week Numbers; see <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm> etc.

[Renan]

Post by Dr John Stockton
I find MiniTrue useful for viewing/searching/altering files, at a DOS
prompt; free, DOS/Win/UNIX, <URL:http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/>
Some DOS ports of UNIX utilities can be found via Timo Salmi's Batch
FAQ, ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip .

Thanks for the hints.

Post by Dr John Stockton
Be careful with any that deal with date and time; some ports have the
1987-2006 US Summer Time rules hard-coded, with provision for setting
Time Zone and DST used/not. That's all that NorteAmericanos need, so
that's all that was sometimes provided. But you are in America do Sol,
AIUI & IIRC, where things are rather different. Be careful also about
Week Numbers; see <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm> etc.

I'm on South America, so I think I will stumble upon problems due to
timezone! :(

[Chris Martel]

Post by Renan
Hello,
When using MS-DOS I miss UNIX command-line tools like 'grep', 'sed',
'awk', 'tr', and others.

Most GNU stuff has been ported to DOS. I am using the coreutils (the text,
file and shell utilities) as well as the bash shell under FreeDOS. GROFF,
GREP, SED and AWK are also working pretty well. Check out the "Unix >> DOS"
Section on

http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/softlib1.htm

Enjoy, Chris