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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
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dagger
Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud (by dagger)
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csvquote
Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
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- Coreutils for Windows
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Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
See also, for Windows: w64devkit, and the included busybox-w32
https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
https://frippery.org/busybox/
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Bring Your Favorite Linux Commands to Windows Command Prompt in Minutes!
Go to BusyBox for Windows and download the standalone executable.
- Win32 Native Port of BusyBox
- 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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The primary programming language of busybox-w32 is C.
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