unxutils VS gow

The rest is mostly personal utilities. I have little .net programs that let me connect to OPC servers and browse tags, write values, or dump data to files. I keep a set of the Unix Utils for windows from here because mashing things like grep/cat/tail together with notepad++ or other cmd apps is just so helpful. I'd say 50% of my "on-site" utilities is just the list of little commandlets that I've built up over... Source: 10 months ago

Note: if you're on Windows, you will need to get native Win32 ports of GNU utilities and add them to your environment variables so that R can use commands like grep. Source: over 1 year ago

Http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ has a set of the most used unix tools as standalone files, including wget. Source: almost 2 years ago

And find and rm for Windows http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

The problem is that awk is in POSIX, and perl is not. There are two common sources of awk for Windows, for example, that drop one exe to provide the interpreter: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ https://frippery.org/busybox/ Perl simply wasn't designed to do that. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

And if need so much something like this, you can always use WSL or GOW (https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow). Source: 12 months ago

Use gow, and WindTerm; and if you want an even better experience install lsd, fd, and lf all of which are downloadable via Chocolatey, the Windows package manager. Source: over 1 year ago

¹ Bash was ported natively, zsh runs through mingw quite well. ² https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow. Source: almost 3 years ago

Ah, you're on Windows, so you don't have those utilities. Looks like these days, folks are using GoW (GNU on Windows) to install some useful GNU utilities on Windows machines: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow. Source: about 3 years ago