Comments on: Cygwin or PowerShell http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2008/01/31/cygwin-or-powershell/ babblings of a computer loving fool Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeffrey Snover http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2008/01/31/cygwin-or-powershell/comment-page-1/#comment-30402 Jeffrey Snover Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:56:56 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2008/01/31/cygwin-or-powershell/#comment-30402 > I don’t care what you say, awk is readable So were PDP11 octal code dumps. God I loved reading that stuff! :-) (actually I'm serious - the PDP11 was so perfectly regular that almost anyone could read octal code dumps [after you got over the intimidation of the task]). BTW - you are right - awk is an awesome tool. You've defended her honor well. :-) Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx > I don’t care what you say, awk is readable

So were PDP11 octal code dumps. God I loved reading that stuff! :-) (actually I’m serious – the PDP11 was so perfectly regular that almost anyone could read octal code dumps [after you got over the intimidation of the task]).

BTW – you are right – awk is an awesome tool.
You’ve defended her honor well. :-)

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
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]]> By: Steven Harman http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2008/01/31/cygwin-or-powershell/comment-page-1/#comment-30398 Steven Harman Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:25:14 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2008/01/31/cygwin-or-powershell/#comment-30398 How about Ruby running in Cygwin? -- you knew it was coming! Or... if you don't want a separate script (Ruby) file, but instead want to do it interactively... you could use the Ruby IRB, running in Cygwin, to iteratively build the command as you did above. How about Ruby running in Cygwin? — you knew it was coming!

Or… if you don’t want a separate script (Ruby) file, but instead want to do it interactively… you could use the Ruby IRB, running in Cygwin, to iteratively build the command as you did above.

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