RE: Doing Unix on Windows

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From: vim_use@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_use@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meino.cramer@gmx.de
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:13 PM
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Subject: Re: Doing Unix on Windows

Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> [10-04-22 19:56]:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > pansz <panshizhu@routon.com> [10-04-22 17:16]:
> > >
> > > meino.cramer@gmx.de 写道:
> > > >Hi,
> > > > at home I am using Vim on Linux.
> > > > at work I am using Vim on Windows.
> > > > I am a Unixxer...
> > > > At work I am not allowed all that nice gimmicks like
> > > > grep, find, sed etc. which were ported to windows also due to
> > > >security reasons.
> > > > I would like to get back some of that functionality
> > > > mainly of text related Unix tools via vim.
> > >
> > > Install Cygwin on windows and install Mintty from googlecode, use
> > > Mintty as your terminal emulator and Cygwin/bash as your shell, use the
> > > vim provided by Cygwin.
> > >
> > > Then you'll feel at home on Windows.
> > >
> > >
> > > That is what I would like to install on every Windows computer.
> > >
> >
> > As I tried to explain with my broken English, I am not allowed to
> > install anything on my Windows-PC.
> > Sorry...
> > The only tool I have is: Vim.
>
> Not to discount other suggestions (using glob()/etc. within Vim), but
> it's probably worth your while to find a workaround. Vim's
> not-the-kitchen-sink philosophy[1] probably prevents it from being the
> swiss army knife you seem to be looking for.
>
> Cygwin was the first thing I found that made Windows tolerable. I
> believe (but am not certain) it's installable to a USB thumb drive, if
> that's an option. (CoLinux is my current preference for using Linux
> under Windows, but that's far less likely to work under security
> restrictions). I know MinGW is installable as such, but don't know if
> it provides the range of utilities you're seeking.
>
> I've not tried Mintty, so I can't compare, but last time I was using
> Windows (a while ago), I liked Console2[2] as a cmd.exe replacement.
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben H
>
> [1] see: :help design-not
> [2] http://console.sf.net/
>

To emphasis the security related things in "installing" something on
the Windows PC at work and "doing something, which is no installation
but results in something, which works like that":

We (the workers) are even not allowed to carry any USB-stick or
other storage devices with us. Same goes for mobile phones with
cameras and so on.

Or in other words: Executing anything else than what is already
installed is FORBIDDEN -- otherwise I get fired.

I /have to/ rely on what I have : VIM.

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Here's something I used from a perl script. You can call something like this from a bat file. But this snippet has the basics of how to use vim in line mode from the command line. It may get you where you want.
`c:\\vim\\vim63\\vim -e -s -c "g\/^ttl\$\/d" -c "\%s\/^ttl\/\/" -c "g\/\^\$\/d" -c "\%s\/.\/\\L\&\/g" -c "\%\!sort" -c "\%\!uniq" -c "\%\!aspell -l" -c "wq" badlist.txt`;

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