Hi, I am absolutely new to perl and cygwin, so apologize if the question appears trivial to you. I have been asked to write a perl script which will work on unix and can be ported To windows also. (I have searched through the archives).
1) I am not clear from the website if I need to install perl on windows2000 first and then install a cygwin package for perl. Please clarify. 2)I will be using Perl 5.6.1. So do I need to download cygwin perl package which mentions Perl 5.6.1 ?? (Not sure if version numbers are comparable here). 3)I went through the list of cygwin packages. I am not sure what all I need to install. For my requirements , I need to open and read from existing files ; write to files; Use the redirection operator " > " to do something like `java Myjavaprog abc > tempFile`. In addition to this I need to do pattern matching to compare the output of the above Command with the expected output (which I plan to store in an existing file). 4) Also, in order to port my perl script from Unix to Windows the steps that I understand I have to do is : I write a perl script on UNIX and put then copy that code into a file from the cygwin console window ? 5) Is there any sample code available (websites or otherwise) to do the steps mentioned In (3) that you may be aware of using cygwin? Thanks Ramneek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
