BASH 2000 (windoze 2000 that is), or how i fell in love with the atomic bomb

soylentgreen · 03-14-2005, 07:51 PM

k.. so im sitting here at work.. win2k.. in a

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cmd

window.. and i accidentally did

Code:

ls

instead ov

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dir

it worked.. neat.

so i was like.. hrm.. what about

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ls -l

yup..

how about

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ls -l|grep log

roger that

so i got crazy.. did..

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cat super.log|grep xyz

and some

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chmod g+w super.log

and it all worked...

so who let M$ into the BASH barn, and why didn't anyone tell me!?

stupid, i know.. just found it interesting.

scuzzman · 03-14-2005, 10:48 PM

Code:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

H:\>ls
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\>chmod
'chmod' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\>grep
'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\>ls -l
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\>echo doesnt seem to be working for me
doesnt seem to be working for me

H:\>

frob23 · 03-14-2005, 11:23 PM

It is likely your work requires some software which expects a Unix-type environment. So you probably have cygwin or its equivalent installed.

None of those things would work on a stock Win2k install (as pointed out before this post).