How to use Linux from Windows

. . . I'll try to think of a scenario where I'd want to use a bash terminal or other Linux application while I'm in Windows.

[According to websitenotworking-dot-com, this site has been down for as long as the post has been up on LXer.com.]

I occasionally find the need to do things for work that are much easier for me using cygwin and a bash shell script. Learning the various bash substitutions and expansions helped that opinion, though.

I've seen a friend point and click his way through renaming a directory worth of audio files to take off the leading artist and album information.

It would have been a bit faster with this:

I am sorry about the server being down, I was the first time I ever had any problems with it and had to reboot it.

Ah. OK. Now it makes a little more sense -- it's an article about installing Cygwin on a Windows box. I have to use a Windows box at the newspaper for which I work, however I always have the Linux-running laptops closeby. So other than telanoc's example above (and perhaps ssh-ing into my local open-access Unix system using a terminal instead of PuTTY on the Windows box at work), are there any other uses for this?

Try running something from the command line. "c:Program FilesLameLame.exe -b 32 -h ...

Now try running a batch of files. Yes I realize there are front ends like RazerLame, but there's not always a fronted, and sometimes the command line is faster...in Linux.

Wget for windows is another annoying animal to use in Windows' sorry excuse for a shell.