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 |
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):
Category: | |
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> |
Compress FILEs (or stdin). `gzip' implementation for busybox.
Sibling Busybox command is:
• gunzip: Decompress FILEs (or stdin). Alias for `gzip -d'.
Part of BusyBox (See there for available Windows implementations).
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License: | Freeware/Open Source. FOSS |
NOTE: This entry is about the Unix version, see below for available Windows implementations.
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc (Coreutils). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.
It contains the following tools (More info under "Details" below):
Category: | |
License: | Freeware/Open Source. FOSS |
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billon
on 2020-10-03 15:53
and why it's here especially since windows version exist
vevy
on 2020-10-03 19:20
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Compression and decompression utilities; the typical extension is `.gz'.
It handles single files only. It is not an archiver.
It contains the following tools:
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |