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). |
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 |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://curl.se/changes.html. |
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> |
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:
Category: | |
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/ |
Swiss File Knife (SFK) is a multi-function command line tool designed to avoid having to install many small tools. Swiss File Knife can find text in binary files, calculate directory sizes, find duplicate files, join a split file back to whole, calculate and verify MD5 hashes, show a hex dump of a binary file, print first/last lines of a text file, convert line endings, download files from the Internet, and more.
Use cases: | download files |
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | Partial. Some commands can't handle Unicode characters in file names. |
License: | FreeBSD FOSS |
How to extract: | Download sfk.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: http://stahlworks.com/dev/?tool=sfkver |
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No, it's today. From https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/files/1-swissfileknife/1.9.6.0/ |
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 |
Category: | |
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 |
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new version 2021.12.17 .. .. (https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html) |
Git is a version control system for tracking code changes in software development. Git for Windows allows users to work on existing Git projects and/or set up local repositories for their own projects.
Use cases: | git client version control |
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | %USERPROFILE%\.config |
Stealth: ? | No |
Path portability: | No |
License: | GNU GPLv2 FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the file prefixed with PortableGit. Launch the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch either git-bash.exe or git-cmd.exe. |
What's new? |
New Features
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PDFtk is a command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs. It does not require Adobe Acrobat or Reader, and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Dependencies: | libiconv2.dll |
License: | GPL FOSS |
How to extract: |
Uniextract the Installer, copy these two files: {app}\bin\pdftk.exe {app}\bin\libiconv2.dll |
Similar/alternative apps: | QPDF |
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 |
Category: | |
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 |
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 |
Standalone console version of 7-Zip with reduced formats support. 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats.
Supported:
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL FOSS |
How to extract: | Download and unpack the 7z****-extra.7z archive, and copy the 32 or 64 bit version of "7za.exe" |
A MS-DOS emulator for Win32-x64 systems. 16bit MS-DOS compatible commands can be executed on a Win32-x64 environment.
This emulator inherits the environment variables from the host Windows, and a target command can access the host's file path directly.
Execute 16bit MS-DOS compatible commands on a 64bit Windows system without the need to copy any files to/from a virtual machine (VMware, Virtual PC, XP mode, or others).
Category: | |
Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
License: | GPL FOSS |
Similar/alternative apps: | DOSBox |
ExifTool is a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, PDF, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, Lyrics3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
ExifToolGUI is a portable tool for viewing/editing metadata.
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPL FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch exiftool(-k).exe to read the application documentation, drag-and-drop files and folders to view meta information, or rename to exiftool.exe for command-line use. |
What's new? |
See: https://exiftool.org/history.html |
scrcpy provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP). It does not require any root access.
It focuses on:
Use cases: | android mirror display android screen recording. |
Category: | |
Runs on: | Win10 |
License: | Apache License |
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:
Category: | |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
Application package that enables developers to easily view, analyze and modify the structure of a PDF file such as merge, split, overlay/underlay, rotate etc. QPDF is also capable of creating linearized (also known as web-optimized) files and encrypted files.
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Dependencies: | libgcc_s_seh-1.dll, libstdc++-6.dll, libwinpthread-1.dll |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Apache License 2.0 FOSS |
Similar/alternative apps: | PDFtk Server |
What's new? |
See: http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes |
Blat - A command line utility that sends email using SMTP or post to usenet using NNTP.
Use cases: | send emails |
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
License: | Public domain FOSS |
Similar/alternative apps: | CMail, SwithMail |
Start a Yori shell instance.
Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
Part of Yori.
Category: | |
License: | MIT License FOSS |
ffmpeg is a video and audio converter that is capable of (among others):
Category: | |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |