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win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash. Unlike other bash ports for Windows (e.g. the cygwin bash), the win-bash needs no special environment or DLLs. There is just one binary and that's it.

win-bash is, according to its website, a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

Unlike other bash ports for Windows (e.g. the cygwin bash), the win-bash needs no special environment or DLLs. There is just one binary and that's it.

win-bash is based on nt_bash which was an early bash port for Windows NT started by Mountain Math Software some years ago. As far as I know, the nt_bash port project stopped in alpha status and has been never finished.

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Windows Bash - Emacs build fail: Memory Protection Enabled

I am trying to compile emacs-24.4 within Windows Bash (WinBash? Win-Bash?) however running into a problem that windows seems to have memory protection enabled which breaks the emacs build. The error I get after 'make' (./configure works fine)…
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how to run bash file in win-bash

I am unfortunately having to use windows in work, and so I have installed win-bash to have a unix shell running. all going well but I am having an issue running the following .sh file: bash $ ./qf.sh .\qf.sh: option not available on this NT BASH…
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shopt not found in win-bash

I'm trying to use win-bash in order to get a script to run on both mac and windows but shopt seems to be missing. I'm trying to run shopt -s expand_aliases Is there any way to do this in win-bash?
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special character conversation in bash output

Hi :P I'm a beginner here and i was doing a small project in bash to automatically create prewritten text files when at the last moment I realized that characters like "" (example: "format_version" goes out format_version)were deleted when writing…
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Bash file extensions

I'm trying to learn bash. I've noticed that I can use commands on the path like git, java, npm, node, nuget, paket etc However, some require me to type in the exe extension for example msbuild.exe since msbuild results in the following bash:…
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performance of bat (extract specified column in csv file )

I use following script to combine all the csv file in csvFolder with these condition delete the first line (i use 'grep -v "words"' to achieve it) extract the 18-21 column output to folder/test.csv it take a lot of time to run it when the csv…
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