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Yeah I agree. Awesome product. In fact it's what I use, not employer :-)

Don't forget about @gerwinjanson above and the point about having a virtual machine.  You can have a fully functional linux box in a window.  see here for more info.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

you just download the player.  download an iso of whatever linux distro you like.  set up your virtual machine with virutal ram, hard drive space etc and book the iso.

cp is the copy command
mv is the move command
Paths in unix are separated by /
cp /path/to/file /path/to/directory_where_you_want_the_file/

Hi,

I installed cygwin on my laptop finally. I started testing commands like 'ls -l', 'pwd' etc.

I want to copy  a file from one directory to other. How can i achieve it. Please advise

dear,

there is no need to install cygwin on the vista desktop ,

run the cygwinportable which would not hae any issue ,  ihave given link in te above post .


if you dont want to install the Virtual machine software ,or cygwin

then

Download the ubuntu dvd /cd

install the linux into your d or e partition using the wubi installer of the ubuntu linux dvd/cd.


thanks,
s.deviprasad

Cygwin has permissions issues on Windows Vista because of an overly strict user access control.  You may have to turn of UAC during the install phase to get it to install properly.  It works better on Windows 7.

VirtualBox is free and great for installing a linux VM on your system if you have a multicore system and have enough RAM.  You can install different distros to try out.

You can look for free access to unix shells.

See
http://aruljohn.com/freeshell/
I'd suggest you do not use your common, regular passwords.

I never have success with cygwin on my windows vista laptop. It does not install properly, i cannot start.  All kinds of issues. Is there is any alternate tool to cygwin to practice basic unix commands on my windows vista machine. Please advise

dear,

mobaterm portable stores the filesintemp folder bydefault .


you can select the persistent folder instead , following path :

--->menu-->settings-->misc-->path folder __ here I have give d:mobaterm as folder name

you can give any thing .

as shown in fig 2 attachment .

as far as  practicing the basic  linux commands is concerned ..

you try with cygwin .portable

its unix like environment for windows ,and no need to install it onthe computer ,place it onthe usb drive and run it

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygwinportable/
 alterantively you caninstallit onthe hard disk .


but I suggest , you install teh any linux distro on your machine and then

practice it in the virtual machine , it pays off more for your effort .

thanks
 s.deviprasad

HYi,

I have installed mobaterm. I created test file and saved also as in the attachment. How do i know which folder or directory test file is created under. How to find out that information.

Now i can practice VI commands on mobaterm as you suggested and which is working fine.

Other question is what is the best tool similar to mobaterm which is easy to install and practice basic unix commands on my windows laptop.

dear,

you get your self mobaterm personal edition ,

fromthe site :

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/MobaXterm_v6.5.zip use this link

download the portable version.
and you can run the vi inside of it .

fig 1;
attachment shows :



get your self the ubuntu live Dvd and try to install it onthe windows using the wubi installer ,

this will be easier than centos way .

also ,

you can try
cygwin also .

thanks
s.deviprasad

I think WinVI and follwing link that is closer to your need
to practise VI at home window , otherwise, no more
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/vim-editor-for-windows/

Or why not give up VI to switch to other popular editor (sometimes, we don't know
why people still using VI that is 1970 era editor at that time  you and I were college boy
and Unix now becoming to Linux from 1992)

(Notice: Please also download  xampp apache web server if you want to
do web programming from php on window, just search download xampp on window  in google)

My basic intention is to become good at Unix commands and also VI commands. I am a java developer not much hands on with Unix. I occasionally need to use the unix commands to change the property files on the Unix websphere application server boxes, stop, restart servers, add few new entries to the property, config files. To practice at home I just have widows laptop machine with windows vista on it and no Unix box.

I downloaded CentOS-6.4-x86_64-LiveCD.iso. I am not able to install this software.Please advise.

Dear Gudii9,

Winvi for window, might be close to VI on linux, please take a look at
http://www.winvi.de/en/, why not give up VI and use notepad++ on window
and nano on Linux ? What reason you are keeping to  want to use VI version on window ?

Hi,

I installed gvim on my windows laptop. I started practicing using the link

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-vi-editor.htm

>>vi filename      Creates a new file if it already does not exist, otherwise opens existing file.

i tried above command did not work.

I tried to give
ls -l
that also did not work.

I tried to insert some values  aaaa and save by using command
:wq!
it complains saying no file name. Please advise.

Or VMware player with a Linux environment image

this link may help www.google.com