NOTE: Be especially careful with network-facing and decompression tools due to the age of these ports.
A collection of Unix tools (including coreutils) ported to Windows.
NOTE: Download updates and additional tools here
NOTE: Last release is in 2007, but tools last updated in 2003
Included tools (bold = Original parent package or single-tool packages):
Ignored:● AGREP (Wikinaut) | ● ansi2knr | ● bc: bc,dc | ● bison | ● bzip2: bzip2, bunzip2, bzip2recover
● Coreutils: basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, comm, cp, csplit, cut, date, dd, df, dircolors, dirname, du, echo, env, expand, expr, factor, fmt, fold, head, id, install, join, ln, logname, ls, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, nl, od, paste, pathchk, pr, printenv, printf, ptx, pwd, rm, rmdir, seq, sha1sum, sleep, sort, split, sum, sync, tac, tail, tee, test, touch, tr, tsort, uname, unexpand, uniq, wc, whoami, yes
● Diffutils: cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff | ● Fileutils: mvdir (obsolete tool) | ● Findutils: find, xargs | ● flex | ● fsplit (Fortran files) | ● gawk
● grep: grep, egrep, fgrep | ● gsar | ● gzip: gzip, gunzip, zcat | ● indent | ● jwhois | ● less: less, lesskey
● m4 | ● make | ● makedepend | ● makemsg | ● man | ● (n)compress | ● patch | ● rman (PolyglotMan) | ● recode | ● sed
● Sharutils: shar, unshar, uudecode, uuencode | ● stego | ● tar | ● util-linux: su | ● which | ● zsh (under the names zsh, sh)
● These tools (not ports) are also provided by the developer: gclip, gplay, pclip, type.
● Info-ZIP: zip, unzip
● RARLAB: UnRAR
● wget
I would assume they work on Windows 9x but I don't have a testing environment. Can anyone confirm?