busybox-w32
WIN32 native port of BusyBox. (by rmyorston)
crosh
Minimal CROss-platform SHell (WIP, code is not real yet) (by multiprocessio)
| busybox-w32 | crosh | |
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| 16 | 1 | |
| 640 | 1 | |
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| 9.2 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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busybox-w32
Posts with mentions or reviews of busybox-w32.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
- The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
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POSIX sh is a better interpreter than python
Even in environments such as win32, we have https://frippery.org/busybox/ that is just fucking awesome. Staying the size below an 1mb while being extremely fast. Unlike the shitty python package which has 40mb archive size and leave breadcrumbs for me to cleanup all over my filesystem.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
Win32 port is here: https://frippery.org/busybox/
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God's developer console
Look into busybox for windows https://frippery.org/busybox/. Pretty bad ass even with it’s downsides of missing applets and such
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Does vim suck on windows?
Vim by itself means no supporting unix environment. It's useful to call out to powerful external tools not present by default on Windows. I fill that gap with busybox-w32. It's not a big deal once solved.
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looking for a graphics library
Sure, it's not necessary, but a few simple, nice tools (<600kiB for an entire suite of extended unix utilities) makes thing a whole lot simpler on a platform devoid of nice tools.
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Compress lots of files into lots of individual files?
To operate on many files you'll need better tools than what Windows gives you. One option is busybox-w32 (important caveat: doesn't support unicode paths), which will get you some basic command line tools. For example, to gzip compress every file under the current directory, including subdirectories (leaving the originals behind with -k):
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Windows verison of cal
busybox-w32 includes a cal applet. If that's all you care about, you can just rename busybox.exe to cal.exe.
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What's in your tool belt?
busybox-w32: standard unix utilities for Windows. It's a BusyBox port.
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Makefile example project for Windows with source, include, libs and build folders. Also with a detailed explanation!
IHMO, even better is to just use POSIX sh in your Makefile and simply make it a build requirement. It's easy to obtain a reasonable sh even on Windows (Cygwin, MSYS2, busybox-w32), and to further support exactly this I include sh alongside make in my development kit distribution. This uniformity lets me hit all operating systems with the same Makefile. I use EXE from the environment to determine the binary file extension, if any.
crosh
Posts with mentions or reviews of crosh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-10.
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A Better Shell
But this is a massive hack. So I'm starting work on a real language that supports a reasonable subset of Bash on Windows, macOS, and Linux and brings a reimplementation of the few key Linux userland commands (mv, cp, mkdir, rm plus new programs like append, prepend, replace, etc.) built into the interpreter.
A sketch of this more real version implemented in Go is here: https://github.com/multiprocessio/crosh. It doesn't build at all yet but if you're interested you can follow along.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing busybox-w32 and crosh you can also consider the following projects:
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
oursh - Your comrade through the perilous world of UNIX.
notty - A new kind of terminal
gsh - A POSIX shell for Windows.
csvinfo - A small util to show max column lengths for a passed CSV file.
csvquote - Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
awk - Random AWK code
ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)