unxutils Alternatives

unxutils is described as 'Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools' and is an app. There are six alternatives to unxutils for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best unxutils alternative is Cygwin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like unxutils are MSYS2, gow, tail and ezwinports.

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  1. Cygwin icon
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    Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.

    28 Cygwin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Cygwin is the most popular Windows alternative to unxutils.

    • Cygwin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to unxutils.

    • Cygwin is Free and Open Sourceunxutils is also Free and Open Source
  2. MSYS2 icon
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    MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

    18 MSYS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4.  3 likes
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    A command line tool to output the last part of files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • tail is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to unxutils.

    • tail is Free and Open Sourceunxutils is also Free and Open Source
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    Collection of ports to MS-Windows of GNU and Unix software packages, which either don't have precompiled Windows binaries available, or whose existing ports are buggy or broken. All the ports are built using the MinGW development environment, with or without MSYS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Cash icon
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    Cash is a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands written in pure ES6.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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