Re^2: Perl on Windows 10

[kcott]

G'day Discipulus,

Yes, I think I'm pretty much sold on Strawberry Perl.

For the command line interpreter I'm looking for an xterm (or equivalent) running bash with all the usual cd, ls, grep, ln, etc. commands. I use utilities like tar, vim, make, ssh, git, and so on. I'd want to run my own Perl programs and Bash scripts; and, from time to time, code I've written in other languages. All of those are just non-exhaustive examples. Overall, I'd say nothing particularly out of the ordinary.

Thanks for the links on "FileSystem Redirection" which I've followed. I also had a brief look at your "bibliotheca" — only followed a few of those links.

[soonix]

If you install git (standard download from git-scm.com), you get "git-bash" (an MSYS based GNU bash), and a perl is included (which could be seen as a "system perl"). Calling the portableshell.bat of a portable Strawberry from git-bash seems to work in principle (perl -v gives the Strawberry's version instead of git-bash's), but seems to mess with keyboard settings (arrow-up and down move the cursor/send control characters instead of browsing through the CLI history). I assume one could convert the BAT file into a shell script, which would mitigate this.

[kcott]

I seem to recall using git-bash (or something with a very similar name) on a company MSWin machine a year or two ago.

As I use 'set -o vi', I don't have a problem with arrow keys. I do, however, remember some minor annoyance such as this — not sure what it was though.

I'll keep this in mind as another possible option. Thanks.