
Hello world!! It’s been a good few days fully dedicated to technology, making projects progress with little time to complete my posts production but stay tuned for the ones coming.
In this opportunity I will share quick info on how you can get tools that are common on every Linux distribution but missing on Windows installation.
Luckily there is a project called Cygwin dedicated to “Get that Linux feeling – on Windows” making Windows admins with hands on Linux also (hybrid-admins to put it in another fun way)
What is Cygwin?
Cygwin is:
- A large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
- A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality.
Cygwin project FAQ has detailed information to get started.
Installation process
- Download and run Cygwin setup program.
- Click next

- Select download source.
- Click next

- Configure root directory
- Select target users [all users / just me].
- Click next

- Configure package directory where files will be downloaded
- Click next

- Configure your internet connection type
- Click next

- Choose a download site from list or add yours
- Click next

- Select packages to install. In below example I selected RSYNC and common tools
- Click next

- Monitor download and installation progress
- Once completed click next
- Monitor post-install scripts execution and complete setup

- Open Cygwin terminal from

- Allow execution if Windows UAC is enabled

- Use your installed linux tools in the terminal

How to get rsync and alike Linux tools in Windows