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 - Another option to get Unix look and feel under Windows is [Cash](https://github.com/dthree/cash). Note that only very few Unix commands and command-line options are available in this environment.
 
+- Alternative option to get GNU developer tools (such as GCC) on Windows, is [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) and its [MSYS](http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) package that provides utilities such as bash, gawk, make and grep. MSYS doesn't have all the features compared to Cygwin.
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 ## More resources
 
 - [awesome-shell](https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell): A curated list of shell tools and resources.