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How to create a portable MSYS archive
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| Surviving on Windows with MSYS | |
| If you are experienced Linux/Unix user you will get a bad time working on Windows, to my rescue comes MSYS which contains most of common utilities like tail, grep and friends. It does not require installation so it can be easily used from Windows servers. | |
| Download the installer (mingw-get-*-bin.zip/ ) from: | |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get/ | |
| Extract mingw-get-*-bin.zip to C:\mingw_install | |
| From the command line: | |
| cd C:\mingw_install\bin | |
| mingw-get.exe install msys-mintty msys-grep msys-base msys-openssh | |
| You will get a msys directory on C:\mingw_install . | |
| At msys\1.0 create the file run-mintty.bat with: | |
| @start %~dp0bin\mintty -e /bin/bash --login | |
| Zip the msys directory, and pread it over your windows systems :) |
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