For at least the past 7 years I've installed 'Git for Windows'[1] on every Windows PC I use. Git for Windows comes with bash (my primary shell on Windows) plus

For at least the past 7 years I've installed 'Git for Windows'[1] on every Windows PC I use. Git for Windows comes with bash (my primary shell on Windows) plus a full suite of *nix utilities including Perl, awk, sed, pdftotext, ssh and many more. This has sufficed as my primary scripting platform on Windows, with the intended benefit that my scripts are mostly portable to Linux. [1] https://gitforwindows.org/ https://gitforwindows.org/