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Re: What comes with Cygwin?
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:47:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: What comes with Cygwin?
- References: <CAHXt_SUuCe5WO3x9AkFK+VqZ37vqYQm_ubGbLp6bR+i+miqx2Q at mail dot gmail dot com> <51924991 dot 7080302 at etr-usa dot com>
On 14 May 2013 15:26, Warren Young wrote:
> On 5/14/2013 07:28, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking through the docs, but I can't find a comprehensive list of
>> which executables come with Cygwin by default.
>
>
> It changes from time to time. The basic rule is, "whatever is in the Base
> category" in the package repository.
>
> At the moment, that's these packages:
>
> alternatives, base-cygwin, base-files, bash, coreutils, cygwin,
> cygwin-docs, dash, editrights, file, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip,
> ipc-utils, libgcc1, libreadline7, login, man, mintty, rebase, run,
> sed, tar, terminfo, tzcode, vim-minimal, which, zlib0
I think there are additional ones that get pulled in as dependencies
of the Base packages. One that I'm aware of is cygutils, which is
pulled in by cygwin-docs.
Andy
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