linux like environment

[richardko]

Hi,
is it possible to duplicate linux based software on a windows environment?
We have a website for clients where some of the files are path specific.
For example when a clients' website is accessed the index page is retrieved from "/home/clientid/".
Can we set up environment variables in windows such that when "/home/clientid" is requested the file is retrieved from "C:/home" or some similar location?

thanks
ro

 

[xwb]

Download cygwin and start up bash. You have to watch the commands that have Windows equivalents like find. If you want to use the Unix find, you'll have to type /usr/bin/find. Other than that it is absolutely brill.

 

[sbrews]

There is also UWIN - written by the same person (David Korn) who created the korn (ksh) shell:

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin