Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a
convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.
Features & benefits:
- Ultra light: Small, light subset (about 10 MB) of of very useful UNIX
binaries that do not have decent installers.
- Shell window from any directory: Adds a Windows Explorer shell window
so that you can right-click on any directory and open a command
(cmd.exe) window from that directory.
- Stable binaries: All commands are kept up to date but also as stable as
possible.
Programs:
basename cat chgrp chmod chown cksum comm cp csplit cut dd df dircolors dirname du env expand expr factor fmt fold head id join ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nl od paste pathchk pr printenv printf pwd rm rmdir seq sha1sum sleep sort split su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr uname unexpand uniq wc whoami yes bc bison bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover curl dc diff diff3 dos2unix gfind fgrep flex gawk gow gsar gzip indent jwhois less lesskey m4 make pageant patch pcre3 plink pscp psftp putty puttygen recode sed sftp shar tar unix2dos unshar unzip uudecode vim wget whereis xargs zip
Gow end-of-life