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BTW, Windows PowerShell includes a bunch of unix aliases including ls, cat, cp, mv, rm, pwd, more, ps, man, mount, echo, diff. It is also very customizable, it became my standard windows shell when I discovered posh-git https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

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If Microsoft had wanted to do the Right Thing, they would have adopted the bash shell, and created a set of utilities providing access to services it doesn't provide.

Currently, Bash (or something very bash-like) is The One True Shell for all Unices, Linux, MacOSX, and even (rootkit ant terminal app) Android. As well as zSeries and numerous other platforms with appropriate compatibility kits.

Microsoft are ghettoizing themselves. It's a large, well-populated ghetto no, but I see a downward trend.

There is "SUA", but it's only available for the Enterprise & Ultimate Windows editions. (And supposedly going away entirely after Windows 8.) Shame it wasn't better integrated and packaged.

http://www.suacommunity.com/sua.aspx

There is also UWIN which emulates a full Unix environment for windows. It includes KSH. Its cc comand can work with a number of compilers including MinGW, and Visual C++.

http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/uwin/uwin.html

Yeah, but the PowerShell output from those "aliases" doesn't match the *nix versions (e.g. ls), which drives me nuts.

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