Trying to make Windows more Linux-like day 1

Wether you work tigh Git (SCM) or not, get yourself a copy of GITGUI.

This includes the MINGW package, which has a subset of the most common Linux tools like:

• awk
• basename
• bash
• chmod
• curl
• cut
• diff
• dirname
• dos2unix
• grep
• gzip
• kill
• ls
• ln
• md5sum
• mv
• patch
• pwd
• rm
• ssh
• tee
• touch
• vi
• xargs

Even more interesting is that it includes a linux-like command line utility where you can operate with all those command on the windows files by using / instead of \ and using auto completion with auto escaping of space characters by means of the Tab key. For example:

$ cd /c/WINDOWS 

$ cd /c/Documents\ and\ Settings

would be the equivalent to cd c:\WINDOWS   and cd "c:\Documents and Settings" respectively


PS: of course you may use MINGW directly, but in my case I was also needing GIT.