Or learn to use the bash shell
After a few years living with a bash shell to hand on every system I use (cygwin on all my windows installs, I'm more of a Fedora person when it comes to linux distros) being without a bash shell feels probably a bit like you feel without having a gui.
If you're serious about doing any server stuff learning your way around linux from the terminal will be one of the most useful things you ever learn.
In case you didn't realise "bash" (or some similar shell) is the environment you are in when you log into any 'nix system. Supporting native shell programming and scripting. When you type a command you are telling bash to execute it, but you can pipe things between processes, or into files such as:
ps -A | grep "sshd"
which will list all processes, then use grep to select lines containing the string "sshd" and finally spit this out to the terminal at you.
Beware most strings in the linux works will evaluate regular expressions of some kind.
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