Previously mentioned programs on this site include Putty (a SSH client) and Cygwin (a “run Unix inside Windows” port of Unix utilities). However, when using a remote Unix system you use Putty and have a very nice interface and when using Cygwin, you get the Windows Command Shell which is a terrible alternative. However, there…
Cygwin and Clear command
When you SSH into a Unix system, you can dump a lot of text to the screen and invoke the clear command to clear the screen. Of course, I was surprised when this didn’t work with Cygwin, but I found a solution….
Huge log files
Usually, you retrieve a huge log file and search through it, making selections so that you can get useful data out of it. This is done by searching the file for all occurrences of something and moving that information to another file, of which is smaller, and repeating as needed. However, this doesn’t seem to…