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By default, Windows does not come with a traditional command line environment as you would find on Linux or Unix. It means that you cannot deploy shell scripts to a Windows machine, without first installing a working command line environment.

For the foxrate conversion scripts, the following utilities are lacking on Windows:

• bash
• sed
• curl
• cron

In order to get a working version of bash and sed, you can install Msys:  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys.

You can download curl for windows from: http://curl.haxx.se. Don't forget to put curl in your msys/bash path.

You can download cron for windows from: http://www.cronforwindows.com.

Note that shell scripts massively create and execute new processes. Process creation is notoriously slow on Windows. You will notice that your shell script will run substantially slower on Windows than on Linux.