Unix Tools for Win32

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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.

They do.  Or at least the few I've tried do.


Sean