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Hi, I used to work on UNIX systems and moved to windows utility. Needless to say, I feel quite restricted due to lack of typical utilities on Windows. I've downloaded a few .exes which mimic standard UNIX utilities but haven't been able to find a rev.exe (to reverse the characters of a line)...

Thanks, all! Gvim 6.3 does it (on vim.org) and I'm coding away to glory! :-) Sashi

Hi, is there a vi for windows which can be run at the dos command prompt as vi for UNIX? I'm a programmer who moved from UNIX to Windows due to a job change and am badly missing the simple ability to be able to type vi at the prompt, go into a file, make changes and come out. GVim, WinVi etc are...

Marc, Loopyloo's answer is good enough for me. I know about making the REM statement not show up. I was looking for a way to include multiline comments. Thanks, everyone! Sashi

Well, nothing's wrong with it per se, but I'm a little lazy to put in a rem at the beginning of each line, that's all. Thanks anyway, Sashi

Hi, is there a way to include a multiline comment into batch files other than repeated REM statements? Thanks, Sashi

Thanks, guys! :-) I find Vlad's tip extremely useful, that of using typeset so that I don't have to use expr again! Sashi

Hi, I have a file with integers on each line and I want to sum them up. What's wrong with the following code? for x in `cat myfile.txt` do total=`expr $total + $x` done echo $total I keep getting "expr: Systax error" Thanks, SM

Hi, I'm using VIM on UNIX system and I see that certain lines (macros, typedefs etc) are shown underlined. How do I get rid of these underlines? THanks, Sashi

Hi, I'm trying to concatenate strings using the 'tr' command. $ echo "John Doe" | tr ' ' '' What I want to do is delete the space between John and Doe. What am I doing wrong? Thx, -S

Hi, I need to cut the last character of a string in a shell script. For example, I do an $ls *.c and from the output produced, I need to cut out the last character. Obviously, the string sizes would be different so I can't use "cut". How can this be done? Thanks, Sashi

Hi, How can I force grep to return unique results? I mean, if the output has duplicate lines, how do I get grep to print only one line for all these duplicate lines? Thanks, Sashi

Hi, I have a file as follows ABC_value1 .. .. MY_LINE .... .... ABC_value2 ... .. MY_LINE .... ... ABC_value3 ... ... MY_LINE .... and so on. I want to search this file and output wherever MY_LINE occurs, prefixed by the ABC_ value that goes ahead of MY_LINE. There might be an ABC_valuei that...

THanks a lot, guys! Sashi

Hi, I'm writing a shell script in which I need to solve this situation: I have a string: my_string="some_very_long_string" and I need to replace the last character of this string with a '0'. How can I do that? And when I run this script, i read this string from the command line...

Ok. Thanks, Sashi

Hi, If I'm using a macro #define VAR what would be the default value assigned to VAR? Thanks, Sashi

Thanks, Dan! Sashi

Hi, How do you use grep to find files for a word such that the search includes subdirectories? Thanks, Sashi

hmm, cl.ex.. what wah that? too much work... I was just looking for something that will put nested lines on the left margin for easy identifaction of code blocks. But that's ok, I got my bug fixed (which caused my detour to tek-tips in the first place). Thanks for your help, though. Sashi.