Tip #128: grep, diff, patch, idutils, etc. for Windows systems

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created:		October 7, 2001 17:36		complexity:		basic
author:		Benji Fisher		as of Vim:		5.7

If you use Vim on Windows, and you wish you had some of those nifty UNIX command-line tools, but do not feel like installing all of Cygwin, you can get many of the most-used tools from Ron Aaron's web site: http://www.mossbayeng.com/~ron/vim/builds.html Since Ron is a big Vim fan (see http://www.mossbayeng.com/~ron/vim/vimrant.html ) you can count on these tools' working well with Vim. For some hints on how to use them, read :help :grep :help lid inside Vim. Happy Vimming!

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Additional Notes

[email protected], December 1, 2001 5:09

Another suggestion from the vim users' list is http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32 I have not tried this myself.

[email protected], February 7, 2003 10:27

However if you do wish to try Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/

[email protected], February 22, 2003 5:38

another resource of the unixtools for windows are: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.openetwork.com/berk.html

Anonymous, July 8, 2003 17:22

It appears that the link: http://www.mossbayeng.com/~ron/vim/builds.html is dead. Does anybody have an alternate? Thanks

[email protected], February 7, 2004 5:41

Ron Aaron just announced that his new website is at http://ronware.gotdns.com/vim.html

[email protected], July 25, 2004 6:28

Here are some suggestions from recent posts to the vim users' mailing list: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html http://www.info-zip.org/ http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml http://jlb.twu.net/code/unixkit.php I have not tested these myself. If you try these, please add a further comment telling us which is (are) the most useful.




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