Get Linux/Unix command lines for Windows

Sometimes the windows command line just isn't good enough, and instead of dir you want ls, or you want to count the number of lines in a file with a wc -l or grep for something. Cygwin is great and all, but it is a bit of overkill for most of my situations. UnxUtils.zip contains all of the above and more, and all the tools are accessible from the windows command line!

The official site's download link is down at the time of posting, but I have found a number of unofficial mirrors:

ftp://81.30.199.66/pub/windows/unixutils/UnxUtils.zip
ftp://ftp.ufanet.ru/pub/windows/unixutils/UnxUtils.zip
ftp://193.40.239.25/pub/windows/msutils/UnxUtils.zip
ftp://194.226.230.170/pub/windows/devel/UnxUtils.zip
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.locustworld.com/UnxUtils.zip

Once you have downloaded and unzipped into a directory you need to add them to your windows path, so that when you type ls your computer knows where to find it.

• Right click "My Computer" then click properties
• In the "System Properties" window click the advanced tab
• Click the "Environment Variables" button
• Click the "PATH" variable and click edit
• Add a semicolon to the end of the "Variable value" field and then type in the location you unzipped UnxUtils.zip to followed by \usr\local\wbin
  

To test your new utilities open up a command prompt (you can find it hiding in Start->Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt) and try one out! The standard UnxUtils contains the following tools:

(this list generated by typing ls *.exe | sed -e "s/\.exe//g" > utils.txt from within the wbin directory - from a windows command prompt!)

agrep ansi2knr basename bc bison bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover cat chgrp chmod chown cksum cmp comm compress cp csplit cut date dc dd df diff diff3 dircolors dirname du echo egrep env expand expr factor fgrep find flex fmt fold fsplit

gawk gclip gplay grep gsar gunzip gzip head id indent install join jwhois less lesskey ln logname ls m4 make makedepend makemsg man md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv mvdir nl od paste patch pathchk pclip pr printenv printf pwd

recode rm rman rmdir sdiff sed seq shar sleep sort split stego su sum sync tac tail tar tee test touch tr type uname unexpand uniq unrar unshar unzip uudecode uuencode wc wget which whoami xargs yes zcat zip