OT: win32 versions of linux utilities

[ph34r]

Ok, I admit it. I have to use win32 (Win2k) at work. In the course of my job, I am constantly wanting to use some of the little linux utilities. About the only one I have found a "port" of is grep - Grep32 is great and handy.

Now I need (must have) tail. Can I just get the textutils package from gnu.org and hope it will compile with m$'s c++ compiler?

Anyone know of a collection of handy linux utilities for win32?

[ph34r]

Ok, well, that didn't work. Can't find config.h (made when running ./configure in linux?), so I commented it out, and then it can't find strings.h, which I can't find a reference to in the tail.c file...

So... if anyone knows where I can get a win32 of tail I'd appreciate it.

[YaRness]

TheLinuxDuck posted a link to binaries of MANY unix commands a few days ago. look for it. i'm using it right now, and it includes tail

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[YaRness]

http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html

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[A_Lawn_GNOME]

I thought it was on a CD?

I mean, technically NT is POSIX compliant (*suppresses laugh*). I sort of remember a post about a Resource CD.

[miller]

Cygwin is the key to a happy Win32 environment.

It's somewhere on the Red Hat site now. Try going to www.cygnus.com, (http://www.cygnus.com,) but I'm not sure if that is still up.

It has everything you can think of, including a version of gcc, and a dll that implements most of the UNIX library calls. Almost all of the UNIX/Linux programs I've downloaded have compiled with it.

I couldn't stand the Win32 environment at work any more, so I downloaded that, and I do everything from a bash shell now.

It's sweet.