Cygwin: More useful than Windows CLI for Unix comm, API interaction

Fam, here's another helpful article. When I was getting frustrated with trying to figure out how to execute GitHub's Getting Started API, I went through similar steps this sister went through. I hope this is helpful for you.

Quick Tutorial:
http://hariniachala.blogspot.com/2012/08/running-curl-commands-in-command-prompt.html

If you need help installing Cygwin, here's a good article I think.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/41382/how-to-use-linux-commands-in-windows-with-cygwin/

Some other helpful articles (Unix command line tips):
http://lifehacker.com/5633909/who-needs-a-mouse-learn-to-use-the-command-line-for-almost-anything
http://www.voxforge.org/home/docs/cygwin-cheat-sheet
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.pdf
http://cs.calvin.edu/courses/cs/112/resources/eol/ (end-of-line char)