ascii.exe
dumps the 256 ascii characters to stdout
- using a nice format (GPL)
+ using a nice format (GPLv3+)
dump.exe [file]
hex dump of file to stdout, using a nice
- format (GPL)
+ format (GPLv3+)
putclip.exe
copies stdin to the Windows clipboard
does NOT use Cygwin's /dev/clipboard
- Not build unless on a WIN32 platform
- (GPL)
+ Not built unless on a WIN32 platform
+ (GPLv3+)
getclip.exe
copies the Windows clipboard to stdout
does NOT use Cygwin's /dev/clipboard
- Not build unless on a WIN32 platform
- (GPL)
+ Not built unless on a WIN32 platform
+ (GPLv3+)
-conv.exe / d2u.exe / u2d.exe / dos2unix.exe / unix2dos.exe
- programs for converting line endings of text
+conv.exe
+ program for converting line endings of text
files between DOS and UNIX format.
- (GPL)
+ (GPLv3+)
HEAVILY modified, but core routine is based on
- the hd2d-0.5.12 distribution, available here:
+ the hd2u-0.5.12 distribution, available here:
http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/_data/hd2u/
by Peter Hanecak.
with the '-?' option. Also, see the Linux Programmer's
Guide -- the IPC chapter is included with the cygipc
distribution.
- These tools can only be built if cygipc is installed
- and thus are not portable to non-cygwin platforms. Also,
- they can only operate properly if ipc-daemon is running.
- Eventually I'll figure out how to get autotools to NOT
- try to build them if IPC services are not available, and
- I'll figure out how to link/test for libcygipc.a on cygwin
- and just -lc on linux, etc.
- (GPL)
+
+
+ These tools can only be built if IPC functions are
+ available. On cygwin, that (currently) means "only if
+ the cygipc package is installed" or "if using a cygwin
+ kernel newer than 1.5.5"
+ (GPLv3+)
banner.exe
prints a large banner to stdout. From Joerg Schaible.
- (GPL)
+ (GPLv3+)
-namei.exe
- follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
- (GPL - originally public domain)
+realpath.exe
+ Convert pathname argument to absolute path, with all
+ references to `.', `..', and symlinks resolved. Note
+ that modern coreutils provide 'readlink' with a
+ canonicalize mode (-f/-e/-m) that operates substantially
+ similar to realpath.
+ (GPLv3+)
-cal.exe
- displays a calendar
- (BSD-no-advert *)
+lpr.exe
+ can be used to spool to a windows printer
+ (GPLv3+)
-last.exe
- show a listing of the last logged in users
- (GPL)
+mkshortcut.exe
+ can be used to create "full featured" windows
+ shortcuts (as opposed to cygwin-symlinks implemented
+ using .lnk files, which aren't really "full-featured")
+ (GPLv3+)
-utmpdump.exe
- give raw output of a utmp (/var/run/utmp) or wtmp
- (/var/log/wtmp) file.
- (GPL)
+readshortcut.exe
+ can be used to read information from windows shortcuts (such
+ as target, icon, window state, etc)
+ (GPLv3+)
-realpath.exe
- Convert pathname argumen to absolute path, with all
- references to `.', `..', and symlinks resolved.
- (GPL)
+cygstart.exe
+ A command-line tool which allows you to let Windows start a program or open
+ a file or URL in its associated application. It is similar to the Windows
+ command-line start command.
+ (GPLv3+)
-ddate.exe
- converts boring normal dates to fun Discordian Date
- (GPL - originally public domain)
+cygdrop.exe
+ A command-line tool which allows you to let start a Cygwin or Windows
+ program with a restricted access token. All administrative rights are dropped
+ by default. The tool also provides options for finer control of groups and
+ privileges.
+ (GPLv3+)
+
+ipck:
+ IPC utility brought over from cygipc.
+ (GPLv3+)
+
+cygicons:
+ DLL containing cygwin-related icons
+ (GPLv3+)
(*) originally BSD+advert, but falls under the blanket
conversion to BSD-no-advert, because it was originally
University of California on July 22 1999. He states
that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety."
+Note1: "last.exe" and "utmpdump.exe" were previously provided by
+cygutils. However, once the `sysvinit' package was added to
+the cygwin distribution, they were removed. They are now
+provided by `sysvinit' -- which is where we took them from
+in the first place.
+
+Note2: "cal.exe" "col.exe" "colcrt.exe" "colrm.exe" "column.exe"
+ "ddate.exe" "getopt.exe" "mcookie.exe" "namei.exe" "rename.exe"
+ "rev.exe"
+were previously provided by cygutils. However, they were removed in
+version 1.3.0 because the `util-linux' package was added to the
+cygwin distribution, and it provides those utilities. In fact,
+it was from util-linux that the versions in cygutils were originally
+derived.
+