[kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software Industry]

[CrankyOldBugger]

It's Windows, so you mean to say

sudo rm -rf \



On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 14:24 Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:

> New Windows joke?
>
> sudo rm -rf /
>
> :)
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Steve Izma <sizma at golden.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Techcrunch: Microsoft is bringing the Bash
>> shell
>> >  to Windows 10 [was: Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software
>> >  Industry]
>> >
>> > I would imagine a lot of these errors coming up:
>> >
>> > sed: command not found
>> > awk: command not found
>> > tr: command not found
>> > ....etc
>> > The ecosystem is much more than just the shell itself.
>>
>> Some deja vu all over again, here. The MKS Toolkit for DOS solved
>> the above problems circa 1986, and the solution was still there
>> when Windows became common a few years later.
>>
>>         -- Steve
>>
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>> A: Top-posting.
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