If your a person that likes Unix utils
like find, vi, sed, grep but your boss
requires you to use a NT box you could
look into Cygwin ...

http://www.cygwin.com/

... it works pretty well.
You could then do cools things
like ...

bash$ find . -name "*.pl" > output

--
Its like a dog that can sing and dance.
It's remarkable because it can do it.
Not that it can do it well.