Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

Re:Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin by miles on Friday June 08, 2012 @02:58PM (#4085663)

As others have pointed out, Gow isn't really a Cygwin replacement; it offers over a hundred *nix apps compiled as native win32 binaries. A similar project from yesteryear - might be of some small use to one or two people (max):

The Berkeley Utilities - 40 unix commands ported to DOS http://web.archive.org/web/20090304003628/http://openetwork.... "The Berkeley Utilities follow rigorously the unix System V syntax and include all the options found on any unix system plus a few carefully chosen ones. They used to sell for $200 and are now free." Great documentation, but sadly no source.

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Re:Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin by iki23 on Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:13AM (#4120000)

I'm using MSYS http://mingw.org/wiki/msys heavily, it has bash and all file and text processing utils. It's also distributed as a part of Git port http://msysgit.googlecode.com.

Lots of other utils can be also found in GnuWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html.

Btw, the sed in Gow would deserve update from 3.0.2 ;) https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list

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