Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities

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

Jos� 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

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