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> |
Wget is a non-interactive utility for downloading files using the HTTPS, HTTP and FTP protocols. It can resume interrupted downloads, use file name wild cards, supports proxies and cookies, and convert absolute links in downloaded documents to relative links.
Wget is a popular tool with multiple ports/implementations for Windows.
Wget2 is being developed (see https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2).
Use cases: | download files download via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
How to extract: | See parent package(s) or port(s). |
What's new? | Upstream version changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9310. |
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Upstream v1.21 released 2021-01-09 (changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913). |
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other sites. It is very up-to-date and typically responds very quickly to changes on the YouTube website which causes trouble for other downloaders.
Use cases: | download video |
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) |
Stealth: ? | Yes. Can save cache to the user's profile, see more here. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Unlicense FOSS |
How to extract: | Download youtube-dl.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases |
Yori is a collection of tools for Windows aimimg to replace the default (CMD) shell and many built-in and other commands.
It contains the following tools:
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License FOSS |
How to extract: |
Either run the installer or: Download the CAB files and extract them into one folder (for 32-bit version, replace "amd64" with "win32"): http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-core-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-typical-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-extra-amd64.cab |
What's new? |
See: http://malsmith.net/yori/changelog/ |
pandoc is a command-line tool to convert documents from from one markup format to another (asciidoc, beamer, biblatex, bibtex, commonmark, context, creole, csljson, csv, docboo, docx, dokuwiki, dzslides, epub, fb2, gfm, haddock, html, icml, ipynb, jats, jira, json, latex, man, markdown, mediawiki, ms, muse, odt, opendocument, org, pdf, plain text, pptx, revealjs, rst, rtf, s5, slideous, slidy, t2t, tei, texinfo, textile, tikiwiki, twiki, vimwiki, xwiki, zimwiki). It includes a powerful system for automatic citations and bibliographies. There are many ways to customize pandoc to fit your needs, including a template system and a powerful system for writing filters.
Use cases: | convert text |
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
License: | GNU GPLv2 FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. |
What's new? |
See: https://pandoc.org/releases.html#revision-history-for-pandoc |