Re: coreutils for Windows10

[Philip Hsueh]

Hi Eric, 
  Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will try both Cygwin and WSL from 
there.

Best Regards,

Philip Hsueh
916-835-8988

> On Dec 5, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/5/18 11:00 AM, Philip Hsueh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Can somebody tell me if GNU utility runs on Windows10? If so, can you 
>> please direct me to the manuals and downloads?
> 
> Yes. There are several ports of GNU utilities to Windows.  My favorite is the 
> Cygwin project: https://cygwin.com/, although these days, it's also becoming 
> popular to use Microsoft's WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).  Other projects 
> also exist, but tend to lag on how up-to-date their ports are.  As for 
> specific documentation and usage advice, you're best off contacting the 
> community that created the port you decide on, rather than here (problems 
> encountered may be specific to the port, in which case we can't help you with 
> those problems here).
> 
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