Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    Dumas Walker
Date:    Thu Oct 09, 2025 12:00

@VIA: CAPCITY2
>  >> scripting 100%. The command line utilities were the basics like tee,cat
>  >> diff, grep, tail, ls...

>  ph> Those alone are invaluable in DOS. Man, grep is soooo much better than
>  ph> find.

> Are those tools actually available for DOS?  I've seen them available for the
> Windows command line; I use grep at the Windows command line fairly
egularly.

Many are now via projects like FreeDOS.  For example, I just tried tail in my
dosemu session and it is there.


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