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WIN32 native port of BusyBox.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2015-08-08 · latest 2026-06-02

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  1. There's also a windows port of busybox if you want something more stable. w64devkit uses it. https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32
    comment by 201984 · 2026-06-02 · in Coreutils for Windows
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    Win32 Native Port of BusyBox
    story by keepamovin · 2024-09-21 · 0 comments
  3. …too slow to be usable compared to WSL rsync. For many other utilities I use Busybox for Windows ( https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32 ) which is well maintained, fast, and its maintainer is also very responsive to bug reports.
    comment by doctorpangloss · 2024-06-24 · in Cosmopolitan v3.5
  4. …OS where portability is not a concern. I've written hundreds of scripts for Busybox for Windows ( https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32 ), Linux bash and macOS zsh. POSIX compatibility means a lot. WRT the specific concerns of…
    comment by doctorpangloss · 2023-06-20 · in Filenames and pathnames in shell: How to do it correctly (2020)
  5. This port of busybox might also suit your needs: https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32
    comment by rzzzt · 2021-09-10 · in I want a better shell (2019)
  6. …system to work on Windows. Julia, for example, seems to use it just to get echo and printf. [1] https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32
    comment by rmyorston · 2015-08-08 · in Gow - A lightweight alternative to Cygwin