Linux shell for windows in 5 easy steps

A common source of annoyance in windows is that the shell aka cmd sucks. One of the best features I like in Linux is the shell, so I came up with the following way to setup a shell on Vista

1) Get the fonts right

Download all the 6 fonts from here

Copy them into c:\windows\fonts

open terminal, click on left top icon, properties , fonts , choose Raster fonts, select 6 x 13,

select layout enter window size as 80 and height as 20.

make sure the screen buffer size is also 80.



2) Get UNIX command implementations

Get the bundle here, extract it into some directory of your choice and add the /usr/local/wbin to your PATH variable

3) Get BASH

Get the BASH shell for windows from here , and copy bash.exe and bash.dll into the directory where unxutils were extracted.

4) Set your HOME variable to point to you home directory and copy .bashrc into it.


5) Create a shortcut with the following command to be run

cmd.exe /K bash



Thats it ! Enjoy :)

Binil, heres the screenshot :)