I am using git bash
on Windows - that is git
for Windows via the integrated bash
. Apparently it uses the MINGW
/MSYS
underpinning. (Update from @VonC: It now uses msys2 since msysgit is obsolete since Q4 2015.)
So there are already a lot of MSYS
tools installed - from awk
to zcat
. However I miss the man
command and zip
to compress multiple files into a zip file (unzip
exists!).
Where from can I install them? I do not want to install another copy of the MINGW
system! Any way just to add some pre-compiled tools to the git bash
installation?
2016: The zip
command can be installed from GoW (Gnu On Windows). man
is not provided (too big).
It is to note, however, that if you only want to add the zip
command from GoW, still the whole GoW system has to be downloaded and installed. Then you can delete the other commands from the bin
directory, however make sure to keep the needed dlls in the directory.
Update 2021: tar/zip are by default installed on Windows 10.
7-zip based solutions are available below.