[anthk]

Perl is the Unix utilities' replacement for Windows. It can do awk/sed in one place.

What I miss it's a "strings(1)" replacement for Perl.

[kal247]

There's a "strings" implementation in the PerlPowerTools : https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlPowerTools

[anthk]

TIL. Good addon for w32 perl users.