On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: > On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > > > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be > > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of > > energy switching right now] > > You know, I'm always reluctant to recommend it, because it can > definitely get you tied in knots. But you're about the ideal candidate > for looking into https://www.cygwin.com/
There are other ways to get "shell and unix-utilities" for Windows that are less "drastic" than Cygwin: they don't try to provide a complete a Unix development environment or the illusion of Unix filesystem semantics. [Remember: a Unix shell without a set of accompanying utilitys is pretty useless, since Unix shells don't have all of the "built-in" commands that Windows shells do.] NB: I haven't used any of these lately... http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mingw.org/ (look for msys) https://gist.github.com/evanwill/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f058 (git's bash-terminal) https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/ There were a couple another very highly recommended commercial Unix shell+utilities products (MKS Toolkit, Interix) that I used to use. But AFAIK, they all got bought and killed by Microsoft. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Please come home with at me ... I have Tylenol!! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
