Our most excellent sysadmin where I work, Simon, produces an internal distribution of tools that makes the windows command line environtment tolerable. It's just a compilation of ports of tools other people made, but in one convenient package on sourceforge, here. It contains a ton of stuff you'd like to have for tooling machines from the command line - notably all the common GNU utilities, a version of perl, some Windows specifics process interrogation tools and some DNS related tools. There's more to be done, but just having the package is tremendously useful.
Posted by Claus at January 1, 2006 5:01 PM