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Cygwin is the complete UNIX shell on Windows

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IBM/developerWorks; By Martin Streicher
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Learn how to become more productive on windows with a Cygwin Unix Shell.Cygwin is a UNIX®-like environment for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. It includes a real UNIX shell, a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) emulation library, and thousands of UNIX utilities ported to Windows.

Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Cygwin includes a real UNIX shell, a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) emulation library, and thousands of UNIX utilities ported to Windows. Learn how to drop to Cygwin and use its UNIX-like command line to manipulate the system.

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