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Gow command-line application

This application is installed with every Gow installation. It currently can just list the version number and prints a list of all executables in the installation to help those that cannot remember if an application is present in Gow or to recall the name of the application.

OPTIONS

When you run gow without any options it will give you the list of options seen below. Several examples of how to use these commands is listed in the later sections.


Gow 0.4.0 - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
Usage: gow OPTION

Options:
    -l, --list                       Lists all executables
    -V, --version                    Prints the version
    -h, --help                       Show this message

Example – List executables

The command below lists all of the executables in a Gow installation.


gow --list

The output of that command is below.


Available executables:

  agrep, ansi2knr, basename, bash, bc, bison, bunzip2, bzip2,
  bzip2recover, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, cmp, comm, compress, cp,
  csplit, curl, cut, cvs, dc, dd, df, diff, diff3, dircolors, dirname,
  dos2unix, du, egrep, env, expand, expr, factor, fgrep, flex, fmt, fold,
  fsplit, gawk, gclip, gow, gplay, grep, gsar, gunzip, gzip, head, id,
  indent, install, join, jwhois, less, lesskey, ln, logname, ls, m4, make,
  md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, mvdir, ncftp, nl, od, pageant, paste,
  patch, pathchk, pclip, plink, pr, printenv, printf, pscp, psftp, putty,
  puttygen, pwd, recode, rm, rman, rmdir, scp, sdiff, sed, seq, sftp, sh,
  shar, sleep, sort, split, stego, su, sum, sync, tac, tail, tar, tee,
  test, touch, tr, type, uname, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unrar, unshar,
  unzip, uudecode, uuencode, vim, wc, wget, whereis, which, whoami, xargs,
  yes, zcat, zip

LICENSE

Copyright © 2006-2010 Brent Matzelle

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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