Unix toolchain and CLI on Windows: current state of the art?

Cygwin is ok with slight tweaks. Also look at the latest version of Maximus5/ConEmu for a good console manager/wrapper.

You can use it to integrate your various console stuff and ssh clients if you need it.

See cmder for terminal emulation - http://cmder.net/ Also has basic Unix tools: ls, grep, etc.

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