curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer resume, Metalink, and more.
Use cases: | download files download via ftp upload files upload via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
A collection of Unix tools ported to Windows. Download updates and the remaining tools here.
NOTE: tools are dated 2003 or earlier.
⚠️Some of these ports (see under "Ignored") may be vulnerable due to their age. See the FAQ for more.
Included tools
bold = Original parent package or single tools:
strikethrough= "dummy" according to the porter (doesn't work).
• ansi2knr.
• bc: bc,dc.
• bison.
• bzip2: bzip2, bunzip2, bzip2recover.
• Coreutils: basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, comm, cp*, csplit, cut, date, dd, df, dircolors, dirname, du, echo, env, expand, expr, factor, fmt, fold, head, id, install, join, ln*, logname, ls, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, nl, od, paste, pathchk, pr, printenv, printf, ptx, pwd, rm, rmdir, seq, sha1sum, sleep, sort, split, sum, sync, tac, tail, tee, test, touch, tr, tsort, uname, unexpand, uniq, wc, whoami, yes.
(*) cp, ln: works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS.
• Diffutils: cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff.
• Fileutils: mvdir (obsolete tool).
• Findutils: find, xargs.
• flex.
• fsplit (Fortran files).
• gawk: input files are opened in text mode.
• grep: grep, egrep, fgrep.
• gsar.
• gzip: gzip, gunzip, zcat.
• indent.
• jwhois.
• less: less, lesskey.
• m4.
• make: See note in the linked entry.
• makedepend.
• makemsg.
• man.
• (n)compress.
• patch.
• rman (PolyglotMan).
• recode.
• sed.
• Sharutils: shar*, unshar, uudecode, uuencode.
(*) shar: only works with -T (text) option.
• stego.
• tar. See note in the linked entry.
• util-linux: su.
• which: does not search the current directory.
• zsh (under the names zsh, sh).
• These tools (not ports) are also provided by the developer: gclip, gplay, pclip, type.
Ignored:
• RARLAB: UnRAR 3.00 beta 7: old vulnerable version.
• Wget 1.8.2: old vulnerable version.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
License: | GPL FOSS |
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, image, subtitles and related metadata.
It is a popular audio video converter and can also grab streams, device inputs as well as output them.
It contains the following tools:
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
ffmpeg is a video and audio converter that is capable of (among others):
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Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
busybox-w32 is a port of BusyBox to the Microsoft Windows WIN32 API. It brings a subset of the functionality of BusyBox to Windows in a single self-contained native executable.
Tools here are usually more limited than their full Unix counterparts.
Included Tools (More info under "Details" below):
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Usually None. |
License: | Most tools are open-source. A few are public domain. FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice (prefereably in your PATH folder). Launch desired tool as: busybox.exe <tool name> |