Cygwin

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. Thus it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.

• Project Homepage [EN]
  • Package List

• Cygwin [EN] @ Wikipedia
• Cygwin [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• User's Guide [EN]
• FAQ [EN]

Components

1 pages found:

• cygpath

Hints

Use a better terminal

By default Cygwin is using Windows' default terminal. This is really annoying because copy and paste is so harmful. There is a Cygwin package which offer a UNIX like terminal called rxvt.

• Install the package rxvt using the Cygwin installer.
• Copy the Cygwin icon, use the left mouse button and choose "Properties".
• Replace the line "Target" with the following command (without line break):

  C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg 'black' -bg 'white' -cr 'gray' -geometry '120x45'
    -fn 'Lucida Console-15' -sl '1000' -e '/bin/bash --login'