I recommend http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ if you need access to a number
of linux commands but you have to stay on windows.  It makes things
quick and painless.

Aaron


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Aaron Addison
Unix Administrator 
W. E. B. Du Bois Library UMass Amherst
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On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 06:57 -0800, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> Howdy Julie,
> 
> There are many things people use linux for that don't require a VM. There
> is cygwin, the win32 ports for many utilities, and you can use saxon for
> XML stuff which doesn't have dependencies that require you to be running
> linux.
> 
> When you truly need a linux system, you can configure an Amazon machine any
> way you want with an EBS-backed (as opposed to instance store) root allows
> which can be turned on/off just when you use it at a cost of only pennies
> per hour and you can give it as much horsepower as you want. BTW, if your
> replacement system is windows 10, it has a decent linux subsystem.
> 
> VMs are great when you need them, but sometimes they're like using a
> chainsaw to cut butter.
> 
> kyle
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:32 AM, Julie Swierczek <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
> > "on a Linux computer".  I can only *dream* of having access to a Linux
> > computer at work. I have a Win 7 machine that is 4 years old.  I can't even
> > run a VM on here, it's so slow. (I am due for a replacement this summer,
> > but I can't hold my breath on this project until then.)
> >
> > Nonetheless, thank you for sharing this info.  I will make a note for the
> > future, in case that day comes where I can have a real computer!
> >
> > Julie
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Julie
> > >
> > > The Perl project Catmandu https://metacpan.org/pod/Catmandu is targeted
> > > to massage data (including MARC). You can install it with this command
> > on a
> > > Linux  computer:
> > >
> > > $ cpanm Catmandu Catmandu::MARC
> > >
> > > To process your file and strip out all the fields with ‘Faux College’ in
> > > the 710a field use this command:
> > >
> > > $ catmandu convert MARC —type XML to MARC —type XML —fix strip.fix <
> > > yourdata.xml
> > >
> > > with a ‘strip.fix’ Fix script that looks like:
> > >
> > > do marc_each()
> > >   if marc_match(“710a”,”Faux College")
> > >         reject()
> > >   end
> > > end
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Patrick
> >