krowe

Guide to a more GNU-like Windows CLI

Note: Most of this is now outdated information. Now that WSL exists it is the prefered way to use Linux on a Windows machine. The Windows 11 command line also does a lot of the things I used ConEmu for by default. It's still better but not as much so. The Windows app store now remembers your software so that you can easily redownload it so my personal need for Chocolately is all but gone as well.

This is a guide to setting up a Windows command line environment which supports many of the commonly used features available in a GNU\Linux environment. It is most useful to people whom work in mixed environments and would like a more seamless experience when switching back and forth but is also useful to those who've never used the GNU tools before.

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#!/bin/bash

useage() {
  printf "\n\e[1;4mAscii Escape Code Helper Utility\e[m\n\n"
  printf "  \e[1mUseage:\e[m colors.sh [-|-b|-f|-bq|-fq|-?|?] [start] [end] [step]\n\n"
  printf "The values for the first parameter may be one of the following:\n\n"
  printf "  \e[1m-\e[m  Will result in the default output.\n"
  printf "  \e[1m-b\e[m This will display the 8 color version of this chart.\n"
  printf "  \e[1m-f\e[m This will display the 256 color version of this chart using foreground colors.\n"
  printf "  \e[1m-q\e[m This will display the 256 color version of this chart without the extra text.\n"