elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) (05/28/90)
I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands. grep and find are the two most important ones. I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do). Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ? Henry Bruce
tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) (05/31/90)
In article <4282@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes: >I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands. >grep and find are the two most important ones. >I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs >but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do). >Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ? > This might seem obvious, but both The MKS Toolkit and Polytron's PolyShell are fairly complete work-alikes of UNIX shells including most of the common utilities. Check out any "Programmer's _______" type catalog for prices. There are also some C source collections often called UTOOLS, UXTOOLS, etc. on BBS'es containing source for about 20 of the most common UNIX utilities. Tom Rombouts, Torrance Techie Voice: (213) 538-7108 (The above opinions are mine and mine alone.)
shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Brett Shepard) (05/31/90)
In article <4282@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes: >I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands. >grep and find are the two most important ones. >I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs >but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do). >Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ? > >Henry Bruce I found that Borland's Turbo.* programs come with a file called GREP.COM. I haven't tried this program yet nor have I found any documentation about it. (I havn't looked too hard, though.) If you use any of their compilers or know someone who does, you may want to try it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Just the opinions, ma'am." | Brett Shepard | Close your eyes and Go ahead, crash our system! | Ball State University | pretent that there is UUCP: shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu| Muncie, IN | a fancy graphic here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gary@hpbbrd.HP.COM (Gary Tuosto) (05/31/90)
>> / hpbbrd:comp.sys.ibm.pc / elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) / 10:13 am May 28, 1990 / >> I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands. >> grep and find are the two most important ones. >> I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs >> but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do). >> Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ? >> >> Henry Bruce >> ---------- I have been using MKS Toolkit for some time now and I am very satisfied with it. It includes about 90+ UNIX-like commands ranging from awk.exe to yacc.exe. If you're just looking for grep and find you might want to look at something cheaper (MKS Toolkit approx. $150). Gary Tuosto
gary@grce.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe) (06/05/90)
>In article <4282@castle.ed.ac.uk> elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes: >>I am looking for MS-DOS implementations of some UNIX commands. >>grep and find are the two most important ones. >>I see that SIMTEL20 has a large selection of "find like" programs >>but few "grep" programs (DOS find with wild card parameters would do). >>Does anyone have any recommendations of good implementations ? >> An inexpensive source of UNIX type commands is the C/Utilities Toolchest from Mix Software. In addition to the normal commands, a Bourne-type shell is included. The price is about $20. Source code is available for $10 for each of the three classes (text utilities, file utilites, the shell). The commands seem pretty solid, but I had trouble with the system hanging with the df command. Other than trivial scripts, I have not used the shell. For $20 it is definitely a good deal. Now if it only included vi. :-) Disclaimer: My company bought this software - my only connection with Mix Software. -- ______________________________________________________________ Gary Sutcliffe W9XT GENROCO International, Inc. Slinger, WI (414) 644-8700 {rutgers, lll-winken} uwm!grc!gary