As a Linux fan I always face difficult to work on windows file explorer and windows command line when working on WinTel systems. As a solution I'm using this fantastic tool call Cygwin for more than 3 years and it let me to run all the Linux commands inside the windows box. Cygwin provides a Linux API emulation layer top of the windows operating system using a dynamic link library (dll).
User can pick the relevant packages that will enable set of commands related to the package. As an example if the user enable the net package it brings up ssh, scp commands and if the user select dev package it enables the commands like svn, ant.
You cannot run pre-compiled binaries on Cygwin, you have to recompile them on windows. You can use MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) to compile and link binaries inside the Cygwin environment.User can pick the relevant packages that will enable set of commands related to the package. As an example if the user enable the net package it brings up ssh, scp commands and if the user select dev package it enables the commands like svn, ant.
GNU + Cygnus + Windows = Cygwin
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