| GNU utilities for Win32

This 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.

Download:

> by http: UnxUtils.zip
> latest updates (after 14-04-03): UnxUpdates.zip

Source code:

> I have started an Open source project at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. There is a CVS repository of all sources, even if the changes to the original GNU code are trivial. The repository can be accessed via anonymous CVS with the command
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.UnxUtils.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unxutils login

The following program versions are covered:

> bc-1.05
> bison-1.28
> bzip2-1.0.2
> diffutils-2.7
> fileutils-3.16
> findutils-4.1
> flex-2.5.4
> gawk-3.1.0
> grep-2.4.2
> gsar110
> gzip-1.2.4
> indent-2.2.9
> jwhois-2.4.1
> less-340
> m4-1.4
> make-3.78.1
> patch-2.5
> recode-3.6
> rman-3.0.7
> sed-3.02
> shellutils-1.9.4
> tar-1.12
> textutils-2.1
> unrar-3.00
> wget-1.8.2
> which-2.4

Standard behavior:

- forward as well as backward slashes in file paths are accepted.

What is new:

14-04-03

- New edition

- The programs are in use on all continents of earth, including Antarctica. Still no users on Mars.

## Program

## Notes

agrep.exe | got it from here: http://www.tgries.de/agrep/
ansi2knr.exe |
basename.exe |
bison.exe |
bzip2.exe | Julian Sewards alternative compressor
bunzip2.exe |
bzip2recover.exe |
cat.exe |
chgrp.exe | dummy
chmod.exe |
chown.exe | dummy
cksum.exe |
cmp.exe |
comm.exe |
compress.exe | for (de)compressing .Z files; this is actually a program called ncompress and was found on one of the Linux mirrors
cp.exe | works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS
csplit.exe |
cut.exe |
date.exe |
dd.exe |
df.exe | dummy
diff.exe |
diff3.exe |
dirname.exe |
du.exe |
echo.exe |
egrep.exe |
env.exe | dummy
expand.exe |
expr.exe |
factor.exe |
fgrep.exe |

find.exe

- Example of command line under Cmd/Command shell:
  find -name *.txt -exec cat {} ;

flex.exe |
fmt.exe |
fold.exe |
gawk.exe | input files are opened in text mode

make.exe

From v3.77 upwards, make searches for a sh.exe on the path. If it does not find one, it switches to win32 make mode that is it uses intermediate batch files for command processing.
This is fine until your makefile tries to execute something like mkdir, which will invoke the internal mkdir from cmd.exe or command.com. As the results may not be to your liking, you may prefer to use the sh.exe provide here.

grep.exe |
gsar.exe |
gunzip.exe |
gzip.exe |
head.exe |
id.exe | dummy
install.exe |
join.exe |
less.exe |
ln.exe | works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS
logname.exe |
ls.exe |
m4.exe |
md5sum.exe |
mkdir.exe |
mkfifo.exe | dummy
mknod.exe | dummy
mv.exe |
mvdir.exe |
nl.exe |
od.exe |
paste.exe |
patch.exe |
pathchk.exe |
pr.exe |
printenv.exe |
printf.exe |
ptx.exe |
recode.exe |
rm.exe |
rman.exe | PolyglotMan by Thomas A. Phelps ( source)
rmdir.exe |
sdiff.exe |
sed.exe |
seq.exe |
sleep.exe |
sort.exe |
sh.exe | renamed zsh - this is no replacement for the Cygwin bash
shar.exe | only works with -T (text) option
split.exe |

stego.exe

stego -E encode.me -T words.txt
Encodes file encode.me as gibberish text using words from the words.txt file to stdout. If the -T option is omitted, stego looks for a file called "words" in the current directory. Of course, the -D option will decode the input file; remember to redistribute words.txt together with the encoded file.
The purpose of this program is to disguise binary files as a kind of text file or to drive your coworkers mad.

su.exe | dummy
sum.exe |
sync.exe |
tac.exe |
tail.exe |

tar.exe

- only forward slashes are accepted
- the -z option (compression) does not work
- no remote archives
- works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS

tee.exe |
test.exe |
touch.exe |
tr.exe |
uname.exe |
unexpand.exe |
uniq.exe |
unrar.exe | This is unrar 3.00 beta 7, which seems to have been "free". Works good enough.
unshar.exe |
uudecode.exe |
uuencode.exe |
wc.exe |
wget.exe | wget 1.8.2 builds out of the box with MS Visual C
which.exe | does not search the current directory
whoami.exe |
xargs.exe |
yes.exe |
zcat.exe |
Additional programs
pclip.exe | put the Windows clipboard text to stdout
gclip.exe | get the Windows clipboard text from stdin Example: run the text from the clipboard through sed and put the result back pclip | sed "s/string1/string2/g" | gclip
gplay.exe | My minimalist console multimedia player using DirectShow. With gplay filename | URL you should be able to play just everything, as long as Microsoft supports it.

### md5 sums

### Links:

The gcc compiler for Win32:
http://www.mingw.org
Digital Mars compiler:
http://www.digitalmars.com
A zsh shell for Win32:
ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh
The home of vim, has a Win32 version:
http://www.vim.org
An emacs for NT:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
The CVS version control system:
http://www.cvshome.org
http://www.cvsnt.org
A free IDE for the Win32 gcc:
VIDE

José Fonsecas site with related stuff:
http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32
HTML man pages for the GNU utilities:
http://www.fsf.org/manual/manual.html
An Un*x shell scripting resource:
http://www.shelldorado.com/
Another source of unixish stuff:
http://virtunix.itribe.net

Useful free NT system utilities:
http://www.sysinternals.com
Some hints on cloning your system with dd:
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html
Programs missing from this distribution, especially a command line registry editor.
http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit
The GNU Privacy Guard:
http://www.gnupg.org
zip and unzip from the Infozip distribution:
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip

An Un*x emulation on Win32:
http://www.cygwin.com
Another Un*x emulation on Win32:
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Windows Services for UNIX, integrates the Interix subsystem:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/overview/default.asp

Read my standard disclaimer: (really?)
Last change on 15-04-03 by Karl M. Syring (bug reports are welcome)
Original location of this page: http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html