Alden Hart wrote:

> Wouter,
> 
> Please pardon my mangled syntax. What I meant to say was that cygwin 
> (bash) supports find, touch and other standard UNIX commands that have 
> no DOS equivalent. 

I'm not sure what you mean with "DOS" and "no DOS equivalent".

If you mean "MS-DOS", that's heavily outdated and you probably should look
at other alternatives.

If you mean "Win2k/XP command line", then have a look at the available
Win2k/XP command line tools some time. You might be surprised. (Note that
the Win2k/XP command line does not have much to do with the MS-DOS command
line. If you're only using the commands that were available under MS-DOS,
you're limiting yourself without good reason.)

<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true>
Or <http://tinyurl.com/elaet>

That's just the Microsoft stuff. There are tons of other tools (many of
them free) available. Many of the Unix tools have been ported, see e.g.
<http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/> or <http://www.mingw.org/>. 

OTOH, this may not be of much importance to you, since it probably won't
convince you to move away from Cygwin bash. (No need either if you like
it.) But there's more stuff available than most people think. Ever done a
"dir c:\windows\system32\*.exe /w"? There are a few GUI apps, but most are
CLI tools.

Gerhard

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