Is there a way to run Bash scripts on Windows

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I have bought and I use Windows 7 Ultimate  and I like to use it to develop applications  One of the down sides  as with every OS  is that I can not run Bash scripts  Is there a way to run Bash scripts on Windows by installing some software  It is ok if it does not work 100   but as long as the most common functionality is available it should be great

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Best option  Windows nbsp 10  Native Bash support

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Install Cygwin  which includes Bash among many other GNU and Unix utilities  without whom its unlikely that bash will be very useful anyway    Another option is MinGW s MSYS which includes bash and a smaller set of the more important utilities such as awk  Personally I would have preferred Cygwin because it includes such heavy lifting tools as Perl and Python which I find I cannot live without  while MSYS skimps on these and assumes you are going to install them yourself   Updated  If anyone is interested in this answer and is running MS-Windows 10  please note that MS-Windows 10 has a  Windows Subsystem For Linux  feature which - once enabled - allows you to install a user-mode image of Ubuntu and then run Bash on that  This provides 100  compatibility with Ubuntu for debugging and running Bash scripts  but this setup is completely standalone from Windows and you cannot use Bash scripts to interact with Windows features  such as processes and APIs  except for limited access to files through the DrvFS feature

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After installing git-extentions  http   gitextensions github io   you can run  sh file from the command prompt   No   script sh required  just run it like a bat cmd file  Or you can run them in a  quot full quot  bash environment by using the MinGW  Git bash shell  I am not a great fan of Cygwin  yes I am sure it s really powerful   so running bash scripts on windows without having to install it perfect for me

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There s one more theoretical possibility to do it  professional versions of Windows have built-in POSIX support  so bash could have been compiled for Windows natively   Pity  but I still haven t found a compiled one myself

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You can always install Cygwin to run a Unix shell under Windows  I used Cygwin extensively with Window XP

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Best Option I could find is Git Windows Just install it and then right click on and click  Git Bash Here  this will open a bash window  This will open a bash window like this    and the linux commands work     I ve tried  sh     vi     ssh     curl   etc    commands

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In order to run natively  you will likely need to use Cygwin  which I cannot live without when using Windows    So right off the bat   1 for Cygwin   Anything else would be uncivilized   HOWEVER  that being said  I have recently begun using a combination of utilities to easily PORT Bash scripts to Windows so that my anti-Linux coworkers can easily run complex tasks that are better handled by GNU utilities   I can usually port a Bash script to Batch in a very short time by opening the original script in one pane and writing a Batch file in the other pane   The tools that I use are as follows    UnxUtils  http   sourceforge net projects unxutils   Bat2Exe  http   bat2exe net     I prefer UnxUtils to GnuWin32 because of the fact that  someone please correct me if I m wrong  GnuWin utils normally have to be installed  whereas UnxUtils are standalone binaries that just work out-of-the-box   However  the CoreUtils do not include some familiar  NIX utilities such as cURL  which is also available for Windows  curl haxx se download html    I create a folder for the projects  and always SET PATH   in the  bat file so that no other commands other than the basic CMD shell commands are referenced  as well as the particular UnxUtils required in the project folder for the Batch script to function as expected    Then I copy the needed CoreUtils  exe files into the project folder and reference them in the  bat file such as    curl exe -s google com   etc   The Bat2Exe program is where the magic happens   Once your Batch file is complete and has been tested successfully  launch Bat2Exe exe  and specify the path to the project folder   Bat2Exe will then create a Windows binary containing all of the files in that specific folder  and will use the first  bat that it comes across to use as the main executable   You can even include a  ico file to use as the icon for the final  exe file that is generated   I have tried a few of these type of programs  and many of the generated binaries get flagged as malware  but the Bat2Exe version that I referenced works perfectly and the generated  exe files scan completely clean   The resulting executable can be run interactively by double-clicking  or run from the command line with parameters  etc   just like a regular Batch file  except you will be able to utilize the functionality of many of the tools that you will normally use in Bash   I realize this is getting quite long  but if I may digress a bit  I have also written a Batch script that I call PortaBashy that my coworkers can launch from a network share that contains a portable Cygwin installation   It then sets the  PATH  variable to the normal  NIX format   usr bin  usr sbin  bin  sbin   etc  and can either launch into the Bash shell itself or launch the more-powerful and pretty MinTTY terminal emulator   There are always numerous ways to accomplish what you are trying to set out to do  it s just a matter of combining the right tools for the job  and many times it boils down to personal preference

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If your looking for something a little more native  you can use getGnuWin32 to install all of the unix command line tools that have been ported  That plus winBash gives you most of a working unix environment  Add console2 for a better terminal emulator and you almost can t tell your on windows   Cygwin is a better toolkit overall  but I have found myself running into suprise problems because of the divide between it and windows  None of these solutions are as good as a native linux system though    You may want to look into using virtualbox to create a linux VM with your distro of choice  Set it up to share a folder with the host os  and you can use a true linux development environment  and share with windows  Just watch out for those EOL markers  they get ya every time

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