bmatzelle/gow
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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
…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 -
> 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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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