33.11. Shell Scripting Under Windows

Even users running that other OS can run UNIX-like shell scripts, and therefore benefit from many of the lessons of this book. The Cygwin package from Cygnus and the MKS utilities from Mortice Kern Associates add shell scripting capabilities to Windows.

There have been intimations that a future release of Windows will contain Bash-like command-line scripting capabilities, but that remains to be seen.