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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 -- Aaron Addison Unix Administrator W. E. B. Du Bois Library UMass Amherst 413 577 2104 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 > >