Re^2: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl?

[Anonymous Monk]

Although I have to have Cygwin on some systems at work, I haven't installed Cygwin on my personal systems and haven't done much with Cygwin's Perl.

So, on your personal systems, do you use that terminal program that comes with Windows? No bash? And where do you get the common command-line tools (ls, cp, mv, man, etc.)?

Sorry to pepper you with questions. I just don't see how it could possibly work to not have a regular shell within which to work (together with the usual GNU tools available).

[technojosh]

You will find that Powershell is a decent terminal on Win7 - and already recognizes some of the more *nix style commands like ls and such

fwiw, I run ActivePerl on Windows, and use Powershell as my go-to terminal

[ig]

where do you get the common command-line tools (ls, cp, mv, man, etc.)?

If you install msysgit, one of the options is to make its suite of tools available generally (i.e. to put them into your path). There is a broader set of apps common to *nix from GnuWin32 or UnxUtils.

But I use cmd.exe for a command prompt, when I'm not managing git. There are other shells around, but more systems to deal with than I have time or permission to customize.