Who has never dreamed of having cat, ls, wget... on Windows shell??? The fu**ing dir command which is so bad and piss you off every time you need to use it...

Well today I found something new (Thanks PyS60 again).

  • Go to UnxUtils project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils then download and unzip UnxUtils.zip
  • I copied the UnxUtils directory under C: like C:\UnxUtils>
  • Now we need to give the path to the environment variables for it to be seen
  • Windows_Key + Pause take you to System properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
  • New System variable
    • name: UNXUILS_HOME
    • value: C:\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin
  • Now we add UNXUILS_HOME to PATH (add at the end %UNXUILS_HOME%;)
  • Ok

That's it! A quick test:

  • Open a new command prompt Windows_Key + R > cmd
  • C:\>ls -la