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- How do I install cygwin components from the command line?
Is there a tool in the Cygwin package similar to apt-get on Debian or yum on redhat that allows me to install components from the command line?
- Running a shell script through Cygwin on Windows
Sure On my (pretty vanilla) Cygwin setup, bash is in c:\cygwin\bin so I can run a bash script (say testit sh) from a Windows batch file using a command like: C:\cygwin\bin\bash testit sh which can be included in a bat file as easily as it can be typed at the command line, and with the same effect
- Where can I download an offline installer of Cygwin?
I need an offline installer with most of the utilities commonly needed Somehow the default installer confuses me with all its package selection I installed Cygwin but I can't find the diff utility
- What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?
What is Cygwin? Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix-based operating systems provide, such as pipes, Unix-style file and directory access, and so on as documented by the POSIX standards
- How to install new packages on Cygwin? - Super User
I installed the latest version of Cygwin with a number of packages I soon realised that I need more packages (such as wget, etc) and I couldn't find a way to install the new packages without runni
- Simplest way to add multiple users in Cygwin? - Super User
I've installed Cygwin but have trouble operating it conveniently I'd like the ability to, for example, 'su peter' where peter has his own preference for home directory, and shell I don't care about
- How to update Cygwin from Cygwins command line?
To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line dir
- What is the difference between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL . . .
Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer that runs on top of the Win32 subsystem It has approximately nothing to do with Linux; it can broadly be treated as "just another Unix-like" where porting programs requires recompilation and possibly source modification, and anything that requires non-POSIX Linux-specific features probably won't work
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