\unix\awk ‘{ Print length($0) }’ < InputFile

As far as I know, this should work – but it is giving me the CONTENTS rather than the length.

I have tried various ways, and none seem to work.

in general, the easiest way to create a new file is simply to invoke an editor with a new file name.
For example, to create a file using vi :

vi test.txt

In the editor type some text and then save the file.

HTH

Mike

If you can describe in more detail what you’re trying to do, or what program you’re trying to run, then maybe we can help further. You might also want to look into using a Linux Live-CD of some distribution, like maybe Ubuntu, though it will require you to reboot.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

You might also consider using a virtualization package, like virtualbox, though that requires a bit of setup and might have a learning curve, albeit a fairly gentle one.

https://www.virtualbox.org/

I am new to cygwin, a simple question need to be ask.

Already downloaded the linux files (.dat, binary files etc.). I have tried the script:

/cygdrive/c/folder/abc.dat

but it’s not working. Kindly anyone recommend me on to run a linux file using cygwin.

Thanks!

not sure if you want to get the client data into a database or whether you want to hold it in files on the os. If it’s the former, it’s probably worth having a look at the bash scripting site I linked to in the post.
If you want to put it into a database, you can use the here document syntax.
There’s an example of this here.

HTH

Mike

My question is this,

i want to write a cygwin script in which clients data information (at the point of writing the script the data have not been collected) would be stored. When the data is therefore collected, i can now open a code for each of my client using the data collected.

Thank you.

David

another tool which can be used instead of cmd.exe, both for DOS shell and Cygwin is called Console2. I have switched to it for both DOS and Cygwin shells, it can use tabs and other nice features, it is extremely stable. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/. I warmly recommend it.

regards,
Eric

Let me put in my vote for anyone still laboring to write DOS/NT batch files to switch to writing bash (or other UNIX-like shells) scripts under Cygwin… Particularly with sed and awk, you can do some really amazing things that are otherwise pretty difficult in DOS.

Anyway, I wanted to add a note about PuTTY… It’s open source under the MIT license, so there are a ton of both free and commercial products that are based on or incorporate its code. Another one that I found that incorporates PuTTYcyg’s functionality (via some additional files) is KiTTY. It looks interesting, though I had difficulties taming it on my system and switched back to PuTTYcyg pretty quickly.

Also, since this post is primarily about how to UNIX-in-DOS, I thought I’d point out some efforts to make this possible other than cygwin…

GnuWin32
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
Easy to grab individual utilities if you just want to add grep, sed, awk, etc… I checked out a couple of utilities once but have essentially no experience with it on the whole. Download/run an installer per utility.

UnxUtils
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Another good package that I used for quite a while. Seems like there were some goofy issues I ran into and so had to hack around a bit to get everything to behave the way I wanted, and I never did get their sh shell to work to my liking… Really easy to ‘install’ everything, just unzip and add to your PATH.

UWIN
http://www2.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
I recomend this one the least… I used it for a while but I don’t remember being particularly happy with how it worked. If I remember correctly, installation was difficult, threw errors, and generally felt buggy. Maybe it’s gotten better in the meantime, I haven’t used it in a few years. That said, at the time it was better than cygwin.

Of the lot, I like cygwin + PuTTYcyg the best. However, if you just want a toolkit of more powerful command-line utilities, GnuWin32 and UnxUtils will let you pick and choose what to add to your DOS environment without superceding it.

Happy hacking!