why Unix?

[Rainer Deyke]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> If you need to use the command line, you really should use Unix, if it's
> reasonable. The Windows filesystem structure is a source of pain, and
> it's hard to work around. It's hard to get information about interacting
> with the OS from the command line. Windows and Cygwin just isn't that
> great a fit.

I have both Linux and OS X readily available, but I still end up using
the Windows command line (without cygwin) most of the time.  I won't
deny that the Unix-like systems have some nice utilities, but in my
day-to-day activities, cmd.exe, Python, and my collection of custom
utilities are all I need.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com