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Bash Shell on Windows 7

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 12:17 AM

Has anyone come across a bash shell that works with Windows 7

I have loads of scripts I run under XP using UnxUtils, but UnxUtils' sh.exe does not run under Windows 7
I don't want to install the whole CygWin thing (if it works), and none of the alternatives I have come across appear to work with W7

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Posted 08 February 2012 - 08:47 AM

Did you tried mingw msys ?

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 09:11 PM

I haven't tried it on W7. Ran it on XP a while back but, like Cygwin I thought it was a bit heavy weight, I was wanting a basic shell I could deploy easily where needed by some simple scripts.

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