From win-bash

What is win-bash?

win-bash is a windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

Unlike other bash ports for windows (e.g. the cygwin bash), the win-bash needs no special environment or DLLs. There is just one binary and that's it.

win-bash is based on nt_bash which was an early bash port for windows nt started by Mountain Math Software some years ago. As far as I know, the nt_bash port project stopped in alpha status and has been never finished.

The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an interpreter to run un*x shell scripts

Please report bugs to the sourceforge bug tracking system.

Related Pages

FAQ - answers some frequently asked questions
Installation - describes the installation of win-bask
Todo - is the to-do list for the project
Links - contains a list of useful links including other projects of the authors of win-bash