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Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 7 stories, 15 comments · first 2011-11-23 · latest 2016-11-18

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  1. I just install Gow. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
    comment by erikbye · 2016-11-18 · in Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
  2. on windows also check out this: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow git bash + gow + conemu makes windows not so bad.
    comment by netcraft · 2015-12-19 · in Google Cloud Shell – Free until end of 2016
  3. Cygwin is terrible but there are alternatives, such as: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow Which work extremely well. I can go back and forth between Debian and windows without too much trouble. Many tools are cross platform.
    comment by wvenable · 2015-10-08 · in Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
  4. …ever clone that? Github has "releases" feature for that which the project seems to be using too ( https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases )
    comment by lubos · 2015-08-08 · in Gow - A lightweight alternative to Cygwin
  5. Looks like the maintainer provides the sources in the release section: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases
    comment by rlaitila · 2015-08-07 · in Gow - A lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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    story by rlaitila · 2015-08-07 · 60 comments
  7. Yeah yeah. I opened this: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/issues/164 Please comment with clarifications.
    comment by GilbertErik · 2014-11-08 · in Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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    story by pmoriarty · 2014-11-08 · 113 comments
  9. Are the executables listed in https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list sufficient for use with this?
    comment by isxek · 2014-01-14 · in A command-line murder mystery
  10. For an alternative to Cygwin, take a look at GoW[1] and ConEmu[2] [1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki [2] https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
    comment by scardine · 2013-12-28 · in Guide to Leaving your Mac
  11. …emulator with tabs: http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ gnu tools on windows without cygwin: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki not perfect, but actually usable...
    comment by factorizer · 2013-10-27 · in My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
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    Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin
    story by shawndumas · 2013-05-23 · 0 comments
  13. > If you're on windows and don't feel like using the commandline Just install gow ( https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow ) and you'll be able to run all of those examples as intended. The command line becomes very pleasant on Windows after…
    comment by maratd · 2012-11-09 · in Uses for cURL
  14. …research. I just made a big release yesterday so the user that posted this wasn't just spamming HN. https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/change_log > Furthermore, the project is largely written in VBScript and batch files, which is…
    comment by bmatzelle · 2012-09-11 · in Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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    story by joshbaptiste · 2012-09-11 · 18 comments
  16. If you like unixutils, you might like GOW a bit more: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki Kept up to date, every .exe (once installed) is self-contained (no external .DLLs) and…
    comment by pudquick · 2012-07-01 · in Bringing Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe
  17. …ttp://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
    comment by iki23 · 2012-06-16 · in Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
  18. …updated to version twice since then to version 0.5.0[1], the latest update being 7 months ago. [1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/downloads
    comment by rosstafarian · 2012-06-08 · in Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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    story by shawndumas · 2012-06-08 · 82 comments
  20. Oh, heretics! How dare they leave ed out of the list [1]? [1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list
    comment by ez77 · 2011-12-05 · in Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
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    story by urza · 2011-12-04 · 93 comments
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    story by jhchabran · 2011-11-23 · 0 comments