Free Software: Special Applications - Unix Utilities for Windows

Post date: Aug 1, 2010 5:41:38 PM

A new discovery to a longstanding collection of utilities: if command line versions of Unix utilities sed or gawk do not work properly because your command strings involve special characters, try running the same commands from a script file with the -f option (e.g, "sed -f script.sed" or "gawk -f script.gawk"). [Updated 1 August 2010]