[gjkood]

Couldn't agree more!

When I am forced to use a Windows environment I find myself reaching out to these evergreen tools in many situations and is frustrated by having to find workarounds to these tools that should be ubiquitous tools in any OS.

Everything I learned almost 30 years ago still holds true today when it comes to the basics.

And yes I know of Cygwin, MKS toolkit etc, but trying to convince corporate IT in a Microsoft Centric world to install these usually hits a brick wall.

[odonnellryan]

Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff.

Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.

[0des]

When your logs are big enough python doesn't really compare in terms of speed but maybe in terms of speed to write the thing you need to query them if you don't know how to use the aforementioned tools

[pjmlp]

Or learn the ways to achieve the same with PowerShell, and Technet utilities.

Not every OS needs to be an UNIX clone.

[______-_-______]

Thankfully git is everywhere these days, and git on windows comes with most of the coreutils. I hope IT isn't telling you you're not allowed to use source control. Microsoft owns GitHub after all

[capableweb]

Microsoft Azure also offers Blockchain solutions, that doesn't mean every company using Microsoft's C# is generally pro-blockchain, just as it doesn't mean every company is using Git because they are a Microsoft-shop.

[mciancia]

Eh, forcing people to use Windows in big corps is such PITA :(