Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools. Download: by http: UnxUtils.zip by ftp: no FTP mirror at the moment latest updates (after 14-04-03): UnxUpdates.zip Source code: I have started an Open source project at http