Cygwin's Alternative software gow

Gow is a lightweight Cygwin replacement software, and the thing it can do is to provide liunx software with a running environment on a Windows system. Gow is the Gnu on Windows abbreviation, it is compared with the traditional Cygwin software with the same function is small size ,Cygwin it can reach hundreds of species, and its volume is less than 10MB, but the inside is integrated with the liunx Environment, a variety of utility software, including:

Shell Environment:Bash, zsh

Compression tools: gzip, zip, bzip2, compress

SSH Software: Putty, Psftp, PSCP, pageant, Plink

Upload / download software:CURL, wget

FTP tool: NcFTP

Text editor: vim

Text Search / View tools ::grep, Agrep, less, cat, tail, head

File system operation commands: MV, CP, Du, LS, pwd, rmdir, Whereis

Development tools: Make, diff, Diff3, sleep, CVS, Dos2unix, Unix2dos

This software with cygwin a special feature, after installing it, when you click the folder right button, You will see a shortcut in the right-click menu, clicking on this shortcut will open a command-line window under the current file path (Note: windows command-line window , not linux shell window), in this window, you dos command, or you can use liunx command , for example: You can either enter the "dir " command to view the directory structure, or you can enter "ls "command view, the effect is the same. Unfortunately, the ls command appears to be unable to display Chinese .

This way, you can solve some of the previously impossible tasks on Windows , such as looking at 500MB log files, and if you open them with a text editor, the system crashes. At this point you can type in the command line:

Tail-n My.Log

This makes it easy to see the last log information for this huge log.

Cygwin's Alternative software gow