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by barrkel 3966 days ago
Recursive grep works fine in Cygwin.

I use Cygwin as my main interface on Windows, while my work machine is Linux. I've been using Linux since 96. There is very little functional difference between terminal-based userland on Cygwin and Linux, with the sole exception of speed; Cygwin syscalls are slow, and forking is to be avoided in shell scripts where possible.

Cygwin is a better Unix than OOTB OSX owing to not being stuck on GPL 2.