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Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.

Nice tips for producing a simple delay with batch on windows XP by doing a ping or adding the windows server 2003 sleep.exe

This blog is just a personnal tool for doing a database of usefull tips about shell scripting, batch files and common CLI usage. Instead of posting on an intranet site, i though it could be usefull for some people if i shared it on the internet. So, I do it. You could find some tips and also some case studies from my own experience or find on the internet.

Usefull workaround for missing tail command on windows XP. Good tips for windows admins.