How can i use unix on windows ?

Question

i want to perform unix commands & shell programming of unix. can i do it without installing unix ? is there any software or application through which i can do unix commands?

Answer 1

If you use a virtualization software such as VMware or Microsoft's Virtual PC, you can create a virtual OS within your M$ OS. You can install unix/linux on your OS without affecting anything on your hard drive. A lot of tutorials are available on the web for how to do this.

Answer 2

What Is Cygwin?

# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.

# A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.

The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the exception of Windows CE.

Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me will be discontinued with the next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin.

What Isn't Cygwin?

# Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.

# Cygwin is not a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.

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Answer 3

You can use Cygwin, which provides a Unix environment where you can compile other Unix programs.

http://www.cygwin.com/