*nix Shells for Windows

[v3n0m356]

Ive been looking for the longest time for a *nix shell that will work on windows. Ive come across a few and i would like to know what yall thought of each.

Unix2Dos-I discovered that it had quite a few basic *nix tools that ran in a dos enviroment.
Cygwin-Everyone knows it and most hate it this shell/emulator by redhat has a shoddy filestructure and isnt very good(no offence to those who like it just offering my option)
MKS Toolkit-one of my favorites it offers a korn shell and comes with vi for windows and an intergrated perl compiler found in most *nix enviroments.
Uwin/ksh- Uwin or unix-windows is another *nix enviroment that i personally like it's by bell labs birthplace of Unix and has a fairly large library of unilities to work with.


I know there are more out there but these are the ones that I found to be the most versitile. What do yall think?

BTW: Im going to attach the LS command that has been ported to windows cause i know that dir isnt as powerful as LS

Behold the power of ls

[dspeidel]

I discovered vim -m$ vi ed
I wrote a bunch of console apps using cmd to mimic unix
ls is
dir %1%2%3%4
cat is
type %1 %2 %3
rm is
del %1 %2 %3

I store them in a dir I call Unix. I set the path variable in such a way that it knows of the unix dir and now I have cat, ls, rm. %<number> is the command line arg passed in.

I found some additional very useful tools from http://sysinternals.com

Cheers,

-D

[mohaughn]

I use the MKS toolkit in conjuction with the Windows resource kit. This gives you great flexibility with scripting and things of the like. I do not use the shell emulator though, I just like having the unix commands such as cat, etc... usuable in windows. I've found that the windows text parsing from a command prompt is pretty limited without MKS.

[draziw]

Personally, I just use Exceed/Hummingbird with the MKS Toolkit. Works great, though is costly.

[cyb3rn3tik]

I think KSH is a really good one.

[Remote_Access_]

I like putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
BTW, Cygwin sucks ass

[v3n0m356]

Uwin is my favorite by bell labs it has an assortment of tools and utilities but it doesnt have many network applications.

[Leviatan]

Originally posted here by Remote_Access_
I like putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
BTW, Cygwin sucks ass

Putty rules, and it's free and has advanced options