I am basically in a bad postions I have to write a script for these
unix commands to work on a windows machine by Tues. To me this will be
very difficult to do. Could I get the help of one of your experienced
bash scripters?
 
cat join or display files 
comm compare sorted files 
diff display the differences between two files 
grep search for a pattern in files 
head display the beginning of a file 
mv move (rename) a file 
 
 
here are the options that I have to give them: 
cat -b -n -s 
comm -1 -2 -3 
diff -c[n] -e 
grep -c -i -l -n -v 
head [-number] [file-list]  
mv -f -i -

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Request for Question Clarification by answerguru-ga on 27 Apr 2003 17:50 PDT

Hi dubbs123-ga,

I noticed you posted this question twice...please confirm if you meant
to do this (to get two versions of the program). Otherwise, please
close the session that you don't want answered to avoid being charged
twice.

Thanks,
answerguru-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by studboy-ga on 28 Apr 2003 00:00 PDT

Yes, please clarify: you want a perl script to emulate cat, etc?  Or
you want a perl script to call/invoke cat, etc?  cat is available on
Bash/Windows so we're a little confused as to what you want.  Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by voyager-ga on 28 Apr 2003 05:29 PDT

Hi dubbs123,

does anything speak against using one of the unix emulation projects
like Cygwin ( http://www.cygwin.com/http://www.cygwin.com/ ) - or are
you required to reinvent the wheel *g*?

voyager-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by voyager-ga on 28 Apr 2003 05:31 PDT

Sorry - double clicked on the middle mouse button... correct link:
http://www.cygwin.com/