How do you run ShellScript on Windows?

Question

I'm just a student and I'm learning ShellScript in my college. In college lab, our ma'am just asked to enter an IP address in PUTTY and launch it, open Vi editor and do programming. How do I do it at home? I run XP on my computer.

Answer 1

Would running a version of Linux from a DVD do the trick for you?

You can download a disk image of Knoppix Linux from their web site http://www.knoppix.net/

and burn it to a DVD. You can then reboot the computer and run Knoppix from the DVD without changing anything on your computer.

Answer 2

You can install Cygwin on your home computer. It is a port of many Unix tools to windows, so you can work in unix-style on your windows computer.

Or you can connect to the school computer from home using Putty just like you did it at school (provided that the computer is accessible from the outside). Then you'll have the same environment accessible from home, including the files you work on.

Answer 3

However i feel Cygwin is the most appropriate solution. You can also go with MKSTool Kit but this toolkit is not free.

Answer 4

Have you tried using putty on your own computer and using the ip address she gave you? Depending on how the network is set up you might be able to use it that way. Cygwin is good but if you need to do Linux specific stuff look at Wubi

Answer 5

I suggest you install cygwin at home.

Answer 6

You should look at cygwin, install it on you host with relevant utilites and try it.