Trillan's Journal: Unix commands for Win32.

Back home in the Philippines (home being defined by where my wife is, rather than my native country, citizenship or preferred weather) and re-installing some tools on my home PC....

I found this once before, but didn't think to blog it. This time I'm going to mention it!

For those of you who get to play with a lot of platforms but don't want to rely on cygwin for basic commands, check out this SourceForge project: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

It implements a lot of the Unix commands on Win32. There aren't any installation instructions, but I just expanded the archive in my Program Files folder and added the path of most of the commands (C:\Program Files\UnxUtils\usr\local) to my path environment variable. You may need to do more, since that's clearly not the ideal way to install it. What isn't clear to me is what the ideal way is (although I have a feeling it's to install the usr part of the tree to the root). But this was good enough for me.

I didn't bother with the Unix-like shell, as I'm not that much of a shell junkie.