24 May 16 08:40, you wrote to me:

 ac>> A lot of the magic of shell scripts is in calling the right UNIX
 ac>> program for the task, and this doesn't necessarily translate well
 ac>> from DOS. Also, error handling is fairly different.

 TL> Yes, knowing your utilities is handy, and reading the man pages so you
 TL> can get the exact behaviour you require.  Unix has a wider choice than
 TL> Windows by default, though there are now Windows ports of many
 TL> utilities, which means you can incorporate more of that functionality
 TL> into batch files.

Yes, although I often ran into problems with the Windows ports not quite
working the way they should. Likewise years ago when I ran OS/2 on my main
machine and ran UNIX ports of various things, thanks to EMX.

No doubt the situation has improved a lot these days but I like that Microsoft
have finally embraced the idea of a Linux environment on top of Windows 10,
because it's going to take a lot of the stress away from wondering whether
something is going to work properly or not.

In 5-10 years time when Windows 10 becomes the default OS on the majority of
PCs (for better or worse), at least the Linux environment will be a standard
component everyone* can install and use with very little effort.

* everyone with a broadband connection, anyway...

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