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DIY: Add Gnu command line goodness to your Windows machine

Its great. Thanks for sharing.

Excepting DiG. Dig for Windows is always nice.

I remember having a Gnu pack for windows a while back but lost track of it. having grep/sed/vim back like this will be very nice indeed. No more copying logs to my Debian box just to do a little sort and filter.

Upon closer inspection it seems most of the tools are from the old UnxUtils package but
even that was updated to 2003. Most of the utilities in Gow are from 1999-2001 with
some value added extras like the putty package and very recent wget & curl.

On an old ThinkPad I have that didn't have room for a *nix installation I had put all
kinds of *nix-like tools on it so I could feel a little at home. The GnuWin32 packages
are much more recent (up to 2010) which I then supplemented with bits from the
UnxUtils package (like gplay, gclip, pclip - also in Gow).

A couple of other packages that are more development-oriented are the Janotech
Unix Shell for Windows (a ksh-based environment allowing for creation of apps using
stdwin lib) or SoftIntegration's Ch (shell that's a superset of C and apparently will let you "run" a .c/.cpp file). Both include all the other *nix goodies and utilities.
Ch includes bash and vim.

At least these all run on top of Windows instead of subsystems like Cygwin/SFU/SUA.

Lastly, for those who love 'ls' but hate 'dir' check out utools.com's GNU ls for Microsoft
Windows. Man page description...
"It displays exhaustive information on DACLs/SACLs, integrity levels,
reparse points, shortcuts, hard links, symbolic links, hidden streams,
encryption, compaction, virtualization, volume serial number, object tracking
identifier, and offline status."

It has full color support, dircolors (bring your favorite .dircolors over from Linux), and
also includes a color-enabled grep.

Fun stuff.