How can I use a Bash-like shell on Windows?

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00:30 Accepted answer (Score 46)
00:49 Answer 2 (Score 57)
03:04 Answer 3 (Score 45)
18:45 Answer 4 (Score 11)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/608106/h...

Accepted answer links:
[Cygwin]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin
[MSYS/MinGW]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW
[VirtualBox]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Answer 2 links:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/command.../
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2.../
https://sec.ch9.ms/sessions/build/2016/P...

Answer 3 links:
[Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL)]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/
[considered stable for a long time now]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/command...
[Can I use WSL for production scenarios?]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
[comprehensive FAQ if you consider using WSL]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
[a very old but nice comparison of WSL 1 vs cygwin]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/813848/w...
[Cygwin]: https://www.cygwin.com/
[Babun]: http://babun.github.io/
[Babun]: http://babun.github.io/
[Mingw-w64]: http://mingw-w64.org/
[MSYS2]: http://www.msys2.org/
[Git for Windows]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
[a few additions/modifications]: https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/How-...
[Git for Windows]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
[heavily based on MSYS2]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/w...
[Cmder]: http://cmder.net/
[Conemu]: http://conemu.github.io/
[Scoop]: http://scoop.sh/
[Gow]: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
[UnxUtils]: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
[GnuWin32]: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
[main part]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutil...
[updates]: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUpdat...
[have]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2501...
[obsoleted]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW#MinG...
[more on Mintty's home page]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/mintty/
[Git for Windows FAQ]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/w...
[winpty]: https://github.com/rprichard/winpty
[Conemu]: http://conemu.github.io/
[an even more cryptic "Input redirection is not supported"]: https://www.ca.com/us/services-support/c...

Answer 4 links:
[at GitHub]: http://mridgers.github.io/clink/
[flinux]: https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux/

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