Contents of /local/bin http://www.qhull.org/bash/doc/road-bash.html Unix-like programs that are short, useful, and freely redistributed Documentation and copyright notices are in /doc/local-bin Invoke with --help for usage notes Copyrights are GPL or open source. Links to /local programs Packages go into /local/name or /util/name with a link in /local/bin ssh, scp, sftp -- install /util/putty for secure shell, copy, and FTP Road scripts p4edit -- open modified files for edit in Perforce p4update -- open, add, or delete files in a directory for Perforce road-make.sh -- Create the bash and road distributions road-test.sh -- Test the bash installation === Windows distribution (zip) === From UnxUtils/update (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) sed -- GNU 4.02 From Outwit (http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit/outwit-bin-1.26.zip) docprop -- Properties of OLE docs (e.g., Word) odbc -- Read access to ODBC resources readlog -- Read Windows event logs winclip -- Read and write Windows clipboard winreg -- Read Windows registry From GnuWin32 -- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/) Packages & contents -- http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html coreutils-5.3.0 (http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils) libiconv2.dll -- convert between character encodings, required by du.exe libintl3.dll -- library for native language support, required by du.exe popt1.dll -- parse command line options, required by cygutils csplit -- Split file into sections du -- Disk usage df -- Disk mounts expand -- Convert tabs to spaces fmt -- Format paragraphs hostid -- Identifier for host in hex hostname -- Name of host kill -- Kill process and send signals od -- Binary dump of a file stat -- File status tsort -- Topological sort unexpand -- Convert spaces to tabs whoami -- return current user yes -- return 'yes', e.g., for answering prompts cygutils-1.2.9 (http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/cygutils-package) colrm -- Remove one or more columns from a file column -- Format output into columns d2u -- Convert text files from CRLF to LF line ending (aka conv) u2d -- Convert text files from LF to CRLF line ending (aka conv) readshortcut -- Read windows shortcut mkshortcut -- Create windows shortcut Considered but not included crontab (GNU's mcron package. Is it available for Windows?) cygstart (cygutils) -- Start window programs, duplicates 'start', includes actions lpr (cygutils) -- streaming to windows printers redir (mingw-utils) -- Redirect I/O from DJGPP script (http://freshmeat.net/projects/util-linux/) -- needs porting. Featured in Linux Cookbook http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_5.html#SEC68 sed 4.2.1 (msys sed and gnuwin32) -- msys sed is 100x larger than unxutils msys cygutils 1.3.4 does not include d2u, u2d, column, or colrm msys coreutils 5.97 is 1Mbyte per util