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Replacing the standard Windows-console. Tabs, tabs and select the shell

Standard console, Windows XP (the one that caused the command cmd) - is very poor in features. The main thing from which I suffered, taking advantage of her or from the console cygwin - no tabs (tabs), without accounting for multiple windows open, occupying space on your desktop. After the gnome-terminal screen at home or on the hosting - very uncomfortable. However, such "trifles" as the inability to [...]

Adapting Cygwin shred for Windows

Sketched out here once in a spare moment a shell script to call the utility to delete files safely shred, which constantly take home. Win-analogues was too lazy to look for - once tried to find a win softinku to convert mp3 to wav - in order that linuh done as a team, we had an hour to crawl over the network and clog the machine, but in the end, all [...]

Automatic detection of encoding the terminal perl-script.

Tired of hand coding to change the normal output of the Russian text in your perl-script, depending on the encoding of the terminal (run scripts under Linux (utf8), Windows (ActivePerl, cp866) and Windows (Cygwin, cp1251)). Googled a bit, but there are no ready recipes are not met, a good query to find something in my head did not come. I decided to do the following - to determine the operating system, in [...]

Cygwin - a free implementation of the unix-like environment for Windows

As is clear from the title, Cygwin is a unix-like environment, implemented for Windows. Cygwin includes the following main components: dynamic library cygwin1.dll, which ensures compatibility at the API level, and provides an implementation of a large part of the standard POSIX. A collection of application tools that provide UNIX-shaped environment (include both utility from a command line interface - for example - a tool [...]