DevHackadayabout 4 hours ago
A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)
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Windows users can now run ls, cat, grep, and awk in terminals, a capability that was historically absent. The core challenge in porting Unix tools to Windows is fork(), which Windows lacks. Windows uses CreateProcess() instead of Unix's process cloning model.
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