gow
Unix command line utilities installer for Windows. (by bmatzelle)
lolcat
Rainbows and unicorns! (by busyloop)
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| gow | lolcat | |
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| 12 | 21 | |
| 6,529 | 5,856 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
| NSIS | Ruby | |
| - | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gow
Posts with mentions or reviews of gow.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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The world if Windows was POSIX compliant
And if need so much something like this, you can always use WSL or GOW (https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow)
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
I’m honestly shocked no comment I’ve seen here has talked about ‘gnu on windows’ nor Windows Subsystem for Linux. I use both, because I prefer the windows environment but also like linux command lone.
- GOW - GNU Linux tools list like “ls” and “chown” ported to Windows
- Anyone else a fan of GOW for Windows?
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how the fuck does this make any sense?
Use gow, and WindTerm; and if you want an even better experience install lsd, fd, and lf all of which are downloadable via Chocolatey, the Windows package manager
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i am confused
Gnu on windows has you for the missing utils https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
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ffmpeg Options/ Flags to Preserve & Maintain ALL TYPES of date time stamps during a Remux within a File container as well as "File System" Data Time stamps (Created, Modified etc)? Saw "touch" mentioned (how to in windows?)?
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "GOW"
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If Fuchsia eventually makes its way into the desktop/laptop space, do you think it will support Linux-like commands for the terminal?
¹ Bash was ported natively, zsh runs through mingw quite well. ² https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
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Limit image count number by deleting old image tags via FIFO-principle?
Ah, you're on Windows, so you don't have those utilities. Looks like these days, folks are using GoW (GNU on Windows) to install some useful GNU utilities on Windows machines: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
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My first GUI (and also first Python project)!
Being using GOW since forever as a lightweight cygwin/msys (native) alternative.
lolcat
Posts with mentions or reviews of lolcat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
- Busyloop/Lolcat: Rainbows and Unicorns
- Lolcat
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Kaboom.js 3000
I always got a kick out of lolcat's "versioning": https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/tags
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Proof of Concept: Local LLM to execute terminal comands (Here GPT-2)
More bonus points if also uses lolcat.
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Capture your users attention with style
This script uses the toilet and lolcat utils to generate messages that will grab your user’s attentionand the who util to find the tty and pts devices of logged-in users so it can send them said messages.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
If you install lolcat first, you can also get some lsd into your terminal with
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how to look like you're hacking when someone walks in
you can also pipe cmatrix to lolcat for rainbowz!!
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nowplaying.sh: a simple script to show what’s playing on Plex on the command line
Ah. Those colors are actually from being piped into “lolcat” https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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lolcat without snap possible
Straight Python port of the Ruby version at https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/ but with 100% more fun, because, hey, it’s not Ruby. There are no external dependencies..
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Show me your DockerHub public images in your terminal
lolcat : "Rainbows and unicorns!"
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gow and lolcat you can also consider the following projects:
WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
kubecolor - colorizes kubectl output
ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more
cmatrix - Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation
simple-sudoku - A simple python tkinter sudoku program
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows
hollywood
lf - Terminal file manager
sl - SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping
thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
ubuntu-dev-machine-setup - Configure your Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 Desktop as a development workstation for DevOps or DevSecOps. Pop!_OS 22.04 as well