Another choice is to install cygwin on a Windows system, to get a Linux-like environment, with bash, du, df, Perl, ssh, easy access to CPAN, & many other tools.

Installation & configuration can be time-consuming, but you have much more than a Swiss Army knife: you have a good-sized, multiple-drawer toolbox filled with tools that you already know how to use (if you have a Linux background).

I find Cygwin very useful for machines that I control. If your goal is to build Perl code that will run on various machines that are outside your control, installing Cygwin on them might be difficult or impossible.

See these search results for other nodes on PerlMonks about cygwin, to get a feel for problems and solutions.

In reply to Re: Like du, df, uptime by clp
in thread Like du, df, uptime by saintex

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