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Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
git --version git --version --build-options uname -a Ongoing According to Repology, the latest packaged Git for Windows is 2023-November-18 As of today, this evolving[1] article has been on the web for A shell is a layer or interface between you and an operating system. There are a lot of command-line shells for Windows, including: COMMAND.COM, also known as “the DOS Prompt” (used in Windows 9x and earlier) cmd.exe, also known as CMD and “Command Prompt” WSL Bash, also known as “ Over the years, I’ve used all six of the above Windows command-line shells.
In addition to the less command, the commands awk, cat, cd, clear, cp, curl, cut, cygpath, date, dd, diff, dos2unix, echo, file, find, git, gpg, grep and friends, gunzip, gzip, head, history, jobs, kill, ls, md5sum, mkdir, mv, mount, nano, od, openssl, perl, printenv, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, scp, sed, sftp, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, sort, split, ssh, stat, tail, tar, tig, touch, uname, uniq, vim and friends, wc, which, whoami, xz, and more nix-nux commands are available. Note that the TUI (terminal user interface) editors nano and vim are included in Git Bash and are on your PATH. To quit Git Bash, you can either click the close-window X in the upper right corner of the terminal window or type the following at the command prompt:
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