Unix Tools for Win32

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> Reply to Pragma,
>>>
>>> Also, FWIW, I've taken to using BASH scripts for larger build tasks in
>>> both Windows and Linux.  The Win32 port of the GNU Linux shell
>>> utilities (sh, ls, find, grep, and more) makes this a snap and is
>>> *highly* recommended for anyone who works in both systems frequently.
>>>
>>
>> where do you get these? (Do you have a l ink handy?)
> 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
> 
> There's an installer script on that site somewhere that's the easiest 
> way to get things.  Uncompressed, the resulting mess is about 350MB, 
> though much of that could be deleted, just keeping the binaries.

Do those versions of the gnu tools work happily with both forward slash 
and backslash?  MSYS annoyingly only accepts fwd slashes which makes 
using the tools from a CMD prompt annoying.

--bb