I wish I had access to one of those nifty UNIX command-line tools under MS-Windows Vista or XP operating systems. How do I access UNIX command line utilities under Windows with out using virtualization?
A Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows can be provided using the following softwares.
Cygwin
Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment. Thus it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.
GNU Utilities For Win32
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools. If you don't care about having a full UNIX shell environment, this is a great download for you.
GnuWin
GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT / XP / Vista etc.
40 UNIX Commands Ported To DOS
A little outdated but provides 40 UNIX utilities for DOS and it may work under earlier version of Windows too.
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Not very relevant, but a great shell for Windows is “Windows PowerShell”. It’s a micro$oft tool, but tab completion really change the basic cmd.exe.
Maybe a misunderstand from me (I’m French sorry for this ;))
Also consider the Picnix set of small exe’s from http://sourceforge.net/projects/picnix/. A different but very useful set:
cat, chmod, cp, df, diff, du, fgrep, grep, head, ls, more, mv, pmake, pmore, psort, rm, sleep, strings, tail, tee, touch, uniq, wc, and which.
There is also Microsoft SFU (services for Unix) which is free, can be downloaded from Microsoft.
After MS acquired SFU, they sold it for around 99$, then they made it freely available. But it stayed as a well kept secret ;)
Hope this proves useful
Zaf
Boris, tab completion is really great in Windows 2008, but still, how many years they took to implement this ? Working with PowerShell is hard and annoying! Windows was designed for clicks. Unix is the real thing :)
This tools are very helpfull, thanks !
@Diablo, of course, I’m not saying Windows is designed for shell ;)
I just played with Mencoder for Windows and for Linux, and on Windows version, PowerSheel saved my time more than the standart cmd.exe ;)
mingw with msys is also a good native alternative to cygwin for the basic gnu utilities.
SFU is no longer available as a separate download now because it is included in the R2 distribution of Windows and is referred to now as Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA).
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771672.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Not true. The link still works, and the download is still there.
I have Windows 7 , I want to practice UNIX. How can i do this? Is there any online site where we can practice unix , please let me know
download a ubuntu or such, install it and practice.
how i login after enable the telnet in window 7..???