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If you like unixutils, you might like GOW a bit more:

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki/executables_list

Kept up to date, every .exe (once installed) is self-contained (no external .DLLs) and portable to just about any Windows box I've run into.

No Cygwin or MinGW installation required.

Bash is actually available in the list (albeit an older version) if you really wanted "bash on Windows"

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Are you sure it's kept up to date?

The initial github commit has comment "Initial import of the code I developed back in 2006. Nothing has been changed since then.", and nothing has been changed since that commit (with exception of docs, Gow.nsi and gow.vbs files).

Thanks. I used to use GNUWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/), but this seems like a good alternative.

This was my thought too, but I pushed GOW to a lower priority in my to-do list after a comment in a recent thread that publicised it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085830

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