MSDOS limitations - WAS sed command
- From: "Bellows, Bambi (Comsys)" <bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>, <mgs@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:03:46 -0500
As I understand it, the reason that MS-DOS has such a limited set of commands
was that it never needed anything more. The story goes that it was originally
called QDOS, for "quick and dirty operating system". Bill Gates put much more
into marketing, sales and lawyers than he ever did into the underlying
operating system. After he simultaneously fought both sides of the "look and
feel" issue (again, as I understand it, Lotus v Excel and Windows v Mac) and
won one and lost the other, he put all his resources into the GUI side of the
house and never looked back. Those poor jerks writing command-line batch files
in MS-DOS have the slimmest most arcane set of tools around. But, they always
have, and it's been 30 years, so..............
HTH,
Bambi.
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Subject: Re: sed command
I have often wondered why windows has such a limited set of commands for an
Enterprise product.
2009/5/15 Michael Garfield Sørensen <mgs@xxxxxxxx>
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm = Sed for Windows
Works like a charm:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>type sample.sql
REM SELECT * FROM DUAL;
C:\>which sed
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed.EXE
C:\>sed "s/REM //" sample.sql
SELECT * FROM DUAL;
------------------------------------------------------------------
HTH
Michael Garfield Sørensen, CeDeT
Quoting Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>:
sed is a unix command line tool. You can get various replacements using
cygwin or others - if sed is a gnu utility there will likely be a windows
binary for it, or you can reformulate your problem as a business problem
rather than a technology issue - for example I need to remove all
occurrences of a string from a file, preferably using the command line. I'd
just use ctrl-h in write to do string replacement in a text file fwiw.
Niall
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Mohammed Mehraj hussain <
mhdmehraj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi all ,
i need to format a file using the sed command on windows .
For example iam running this command in my comman prompt of win xp.
D:\sample> sed "s/REM //" sample.sql
'sed' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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