I need to get mime type for some files on windows, so i've installed python-magic (on 32-bit python 2.7.3). It depends on unix magic library. Author instructs to get regex2.dll, zlib1.dll and magic...

I can't seem to get a handle on the difference between the two. It seems that one (GNUWin32) is an layer on top of windows (like MSYS) and the other (cygwin) is something else (?) What does tha...

I am new to grep and awk - using Windows 7 (I downloaded grep and awk for windows from GnuWin). I am have having trouble running this script: grep -Fwf dictionary.txt frequency.txt | awk '{print ...

I am using Gnuwin32 binaries on a Windows environment. When I want to find files of a certain type, let's say PDF, I usually run: find . -iname '*.pdf' -print This works perfectly on any U...

I am trying to use the GnuWin32 version of OpenSSL to fetch certificates from several WebSphere MQ queue managers. All attempts result in OpenSSL keeping the connection open until I manually hit EN...

For a programmer with Linux skills and a love of the command line, what is better to use on Windows - Cygwin or GnuWin32? I tried to find a good comparison or a list of differences but couldn't fi...

I am attempting to install the GD library using Strawberry perl and GnuWin32. However, when I enter "install GD" in the CPAN shell, the following message appears: 'gdlib-config' is not recognized ...