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PuTTY Cygwin terminal

I’ve used PuTTY for years - it’s by far the best SSH client for Windows that I have seen. There are commercial ones with more features, but they generally offer a much more bloated user experience. PuTTY has a minimalist window (no button, no toolbars, etc.) with a working SSH client in it.

I’ve used Cygwin for year - it offers much of the Unix/Linux command line experience, on Windows. find, grep, xargs, and all the other things missing from Windows (not that I blame Windows for lacking command line tools; Windows is not about command line tools).

Today I came across Mark Edgar’s modified PuTTY, which glues PuTTY to Cygwin, so that you get a PuTTY window talking to a Cygwin command line session. If you use both, the desirability of this should be obvious. Recommended.

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One Response to “PuTTY Cygwin terminal”

  1. Korey Pelton Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Woo hoo, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for blogging about it. This helps to soothe the pain of using Windows at work. :-)

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