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I was just explaining to a colleague the best ways to get acces to shell utilities like awk/sed, as a Windows user. In the balance of ease of setup vs functiona
by banku_brougham 11y ago
I was just explaining to a colleague the best ways to get acces to shell utilities like awk/sed, as a Windows user. In the balance of ease of setup vs functionality I had recommended the git bash application. This looks even better (for 2016).
- netcraft 11y agoon windows also check out this: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow git bash + gow + conemu makes windows not so bad.
- swozey 11y agoI'm a big fan of Babun; http://babun.github.io/ http://babun.github.io/
- srean 11y agoIf all one wants out of Zsh are the smart tab completions then msys2 is lighter weight alternative. I have found babun a bit laggy.
- shadowfox 11y agoIn addition to all the other stuff, there is also MSYS2 [1] which includes pacman (the package manager from Arch ported over) and a decent sized package repository. [1] https://msys2.github.io/ https://msys2.github.io/
- daxelrod 11y agoIf you want a remote unix toolchain in a browser, http://c9.io http://c9.io is a cloud IDE with a browser interface that includes shell access. It's a full Ubuntu environment running in a Docker container on their servers. Their free tier is more than enough for playing with the shell.