Re: List of files w/i a directory

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

I just came across this thread and am surprised that no one else has 
suggested the use of cygwin. Cygwin provides a *very* good Unix-like 
interface to DOS. It opens a Unix shell window on your MS Windows 
machine. Getting directory listings via the 'ls' command works just the 
way it has in Unix for over 30 years, and you can pipe the result 
through whatever filters you want (or write), or re-direct to a file. 
You can also use the 'find' command to get pathnames in a reasonable way.

The standard shell in cygwin is bash.

Cygwin is freely available (and thus not necessarily allowed on some 
corporate systems) from cygwin.com. It installs easily, and can be 
updated or improved just like any Linux installation.

Just in case someone's wondering, cygwin does not provide execution of 
object code that was compiled for a Unix or Linux system. The gcc 
compilers (among others) are available if you want to compile source 
code on cygwin.
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