Cygwin is awesome and mighty, but hardly lightweight. I can have msys, msys git, Strawberry Perl, and a decent terminal emulator on a Windows PC and not worry about disk space, differences in paths between inside Cygwin and outside it, etc. Having bash and the usual command-line stuff within native Windows is a pretty nice thing.

I don't in practice do this much these days. I have Windows at home only for games (one laptop and one desktop). I have a desktop, two laptops, and a server with Linux. My girlfriend has an Air and will soon have a Linux desktop. For work I have OS X for a desktop and laptop but do most of my work on Linux VMs. I don't really need to use Windows for anything, but it makes a nicely flexible and upgradable gaming console. I have spent plenty of time on DOS, Windows, NetWare, OS/2, Apple DOS, BeOS, and other systems, too. Linux and the open source BSDs weren't announced yet when I started using computers.

In reply to Re^5: compare and find difference between two files by mr_mischief
in thread compare and find difference between two files by myfrndjk

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