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I loved the idea.

Some years ago, I was making a project that many parts of the build process depended on simple file copies (that this can do right) and ImageMagik calls (that are the same in all OSes)

I ended having to keep writing the same scripts over and over again in Batch and Bash, it was quite a pain to maintain, and it was obvious that there had to be some way to do it automatically (port one to the other, or generate both).

This software has my situation as the perfect use case, when you need to script command line tools that exist in both platforms.




Why can't you use the windows versions of bash?


Isn't that only available on Windows 10, and only very recently?


There have been many attempts to bring Bash to Windows before WSL. Git for Windows ships with a Bash port based on Msys (IIRC).


So how to install it? Windows users are extremely lazy, they often just wait for a “click-and-run”.




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