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. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options.
Features and Benefits
- Ultra light: Small, light subset (about 10 MB) of of very useful UNIX binaries that do not have decent installers (until now!).
- Shell window from any directory: Adds a Windows Explorer shell window (screenshot) so that you can right-click on any directory and open a command (cmd.exe) window from that directory.
- Simple install/remove: Easy to install and remove, all files contained in a single directory in a standard C:Program Files path.
- Included in PATH: All binaries are conveniently installed into the Windows PATH so they are accessible from a command-line window.
- Stable binaries: All commands are stable and tested.
Below are just a few of the 130 applications found in Gow.
- Shell scripting: bash, zsh
- Compression: gzip, zip, bzip2, compress
- SSH: putty, psftp, pscp, pageant, plink
- Download/upload: cURL, wget
- FTP: NcFTP
- Editing: vim
- Text search/view: grep, agrep, less, cat, tail, head
- File system: mv, cp, du, ls, pwd, rmdir, whereis
- Development: make, diff, diff3, sleep, cvs, dos2unix, unix2dos
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 Rewarded as an Excellent Freeware Program by the Primewares staff
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