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by amcintyre 5116 days ago
Gow appears to automatically make all those Unix utilities available right inside the normal Windows command line without having to manually kludge them in there like you do in Cygwin. I usually just find myself missing the kinds of utilities that are included in Gow, so I don't really need the entire Cygwin universe available. The fact that I can download and have it installed in 15 seconds and get 99% of what I would like added to Windows will make me choose it by default when I have to work on Windows.

Adding the "Command line here" context menu item is nice, too (although that's available by Ctrl+right-click in at least Windows 7 anyway).

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Shift + right-click, not Ctrl.