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GNU utilities for Win32



Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.

Download:

by http: UnxUtils.zip

by ftp: no FTP mirror at the moment

latest updates (after 14-04-03):  UnxUpdates.zip

Source code:

I have started an Open source project at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. There is a   CVS repository of all sources, even if the changes to the original GNU code are trivial. The repository can be accessed via anonymous CVS with the command
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unxutils co unxutils
Note: The repository is not up-to-date at the moment, but will recover soon.

The following program versions are covered:

bc-1.05
bison-1.28
bzip2-1.0.2
diffutils-2.7
fileutils-3.16
findutils-4.1
flex-2.5.4
gawk-3.1.0
grep-2.4.2
gsar110
gzip-1.2.4
indent-2.2.9
jwhois-2.4.1
less-340
m4-1.4
make-3.78.1
patch-2.5
recode-3.6
rman-3.0.7
sed-3.02
shellutils-1.9.4
tar-1.12
textutils-2.1

unrar-3.00
wget-1.8.2
which-2.4

Standard behavior:

  • forward as well as backward slashes in file paths are accepted.

What is new:

   10/28/00

  • Added AES-Rijndael encryption program. My version uses Dr Brian Gladman's implementation of the algorithm.
    Usage:
    aesy [-v] [-e] [-k String] input-file
      -e : encrypt file, default is decrypt.
      -k String : your secret key, don't forget it!

    Notes: The key length is fixed to 256 bit at the moment. This is very alpha stage stuff, use it on your own risk (Download).

   07/07/01

  • added John Walkers steganographic encryption program stego (public domain, Cryptography). As with all encryption programs, be careful.

   05/11/02

  • updated dd.exe: now writes to physical devices. Use with care.

  • added unrar.exe: compiled from source code at http://www.rarlab.com.

  • added makedepend.exe from the X11 distribution.


   14-04-03

  • New edition

  • The programs are in use on all continents of earth, including Antarctica. Still no users on Mars.

   27-06-03

  • updated sed to version 4.0.7: uses binary mode for input and output files by default,
    unless the
    --text option is given

  • updated textutils-2.1: sort.exe did some bad things

   01-10-03

  • updated gawk.exe to version 3.1.3

   02-10-03

  • updated zsh.exe: Thanks to the Wind River people at Salzburg, there is a much improved zsh now.
    The latest sources are here at the moment: zsh.zip

  • updated less.exe to v3.81

   05-10-03

  • updated make to v3.80

  • updated grep v2.5.1:  there was a bug in grep -r pattern .

   23-10-03

  • updated sort.exe: Fixed a bug  with sorting larger files

  • updated grep v2.5.1:  the -P option (Perl-style regexes now works)


Program

Notes

agrep.exe

got it from here: http://www.tgries.de/agrep/

ansi2knr.exe


basename.exe


bison.exe


bzip2.exe

Julian Seward's alternative compressor

bunzip2.exe


bzip2recover.exe


cat.exe


chgrp.exe

dummy

chmod.exe


chown.exe

dummy

cksum.exe


cmp.exe


comm.exe


compress.exe

for (de)compressing .Z files; this is actually a program called ncompress and was found on one of  the Linux mirrors

cp.exe

works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS

csplit.exe


cut.exe


date.exe


dd.exe


df.exe

dummy

diff.exe


diff3.exe


dirname.exe


du.exe


echo.exe


egrep.exe


env.exe

dummy

expand.exe


expr.exe


factor.exe


fgrep.exe


find.exe

  • Example of command line under Cmd/Command shell:
    find -name *.txt -exec cat {} ;

flex.exe


fmt.exe


fold.exe


gawk.exe

input files are opened in text mode

make.exe

From v3.77 upwards, make searches for a sh.exe on the path. If it does not find one, it switches to win32 make mode that is it uses intermediate batch files for command processing.
This is fine until your makefile tries to execute something like mkdir, which will invoke the internal mkdir from cmd.exe or command.com. As the results may not be to your liking, you may prefer to use the sh.exe provide here.

grep.exe


gsar.exe


gunzip.exe


gzip.exe


head.exe


id.exe

dummy

install.exe


join.exe


less.exe


ln.exe

works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS

logname.exe


ls.exe


m4.exe


md5sum.exe


mkdir.exe


mkfifo.exe

dummy

mknod.exe

dummy

mv.exe


mvdir.exe


nl.exe


od.exe


paste.exe


patch.exe


pathchk.exe


pr.exe


printenv.exe


printf.exe


ptx.exe


recode.exe


rm.exe


rman.exe

PolyglotMan by Thomas A. Phelps ( source)

rmdir.exe


sdiff.exe


sed.exe


seq.exe


sleep.exe


sort.exe


sh.exe

renamed zsh - this is no replacement for the Cygwin bash

shar.exe

only works with -T (text) option

split.exe


stego.exe

stego -E encode.me -T words.txt
Encodes file encode.me as gibberish text using words from the words.txt file to stdout. If the -T option is omitted, stego looks for a file called "words" in the current directory. Of course, the -D option will decode the input file; remember to redistribute words.txt together with the encoded file.
The purpose of this program is to disguise binary files as a kind of text file or to drive your coworkers mad.

su.exe

dummy

sum.exe


sync.exe


tac.exe


tail.exe


tar.exe

  • only forward slashes are accepted

  • the -z option (compression) does not work

  • no remote archives

  • works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS

tee.exe


test.exe


touch.exe


tr.exe


uname.exe


unexpand.exe


uniq.exe


unrar.exe

This is unrar 3.00 beta 7, which seems to have been "free". Works good enough.

unshar.exe


uudecode.exe


uuencode.exe


wc.exe


wget.exe

wget 1.8.2 builds out of the box with MS Visual C

which.exe

does not search the current directory

whoami.exe


xargs.exe


yes.exe


zcat.exe



Additional programs

pclip.exe

put the Windows clipboard text to stdout

gclip.exe

get  the Windows clipboard text from stdin
Example: run the text from the clipboard through sed and put the result back
               pclip | sed "s/string1/string2/g" | gclip

gplay.exe

My minimalist console multimedia player using DirectShow. With
gplay filename | URL
you should be able to play just everything, as long as Microsoft supports it.

md5 sums


Links:

The gcc compiler for Win32:
   http://www.mingw.org

Digital Mars compiler:
   http://www.digitalmars.com
A zsh shell for Win32:
   ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh
The home of vim, has a Win32 version:

   http://www.vim.org
An emacs for NT:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
The CVS version control system:
   http://www.cvshome.org
   http://www.cvsnt.org

A free IDE for the Win32 gcc:
  VIDE

José Fonsecas site with related stuff:
     http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32
HTML man pages for the GNU utilities:
     http://www.fsf.org/manual/manual.html
An Un*x shell scripting resource:
     http://www.shelldorado.com/
Another source of unixish stuff:
gone?  http://virtunix.itribe.net

Useful free NT system utilities:
     http://www.sysinternals.com

Some hints on cloning your system with dd:
     http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html

Programs missing from this distribution, especially a command line registry editor:
     http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit

Spybot search & destroy - Get rid of annoying spyware:
     http://security.kolla.de

The GNU Privacy Guard:
     http://www.gnupg.org

zip and unzip from the Infozip distribution:
     http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip

An Un*x emulation on Win32:
     http://www.cygwin.com
Another Un*x emulation on Win32:
     http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Windows Services for UNIX, integrates the Interix subsystem:
     http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/overview/default.asp


Read my standard disclaimer: (really?)
Last change on 30-04-04 by Karl M. Syring (bug reports are welcome)
Original location of this page: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUtils.html