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If you do not have Linux machine handy with you and if you want to run UNIX or Linux
commands which could be executed only in the Linux machine are really difficult situation.
Couple of day’s back I got few UNIX commands that I had to run in Linux machine. But I had
only Windows 7 operating system installed in my system that was not helpful at all to run UNIX
commands. Finally I started thinking how we can run UNIX or Linux commands in Windows
machines if there is no any Linux operating system installed system available and finally got the
solution.

There is a tool named Cygwin that needs to be installed in your windows machine. It’s quite
easy to install and run. What all you have to do, you have to download Cygwin setup .exe file
and install in your Windows machine. Cygwin provides the platform to run UNIX commands in
Windows machines.

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Please follow the instructions to install Cygwin software and run UNIX commands in Windows
machine without any additional Linux system required:
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1) Go to the link and download Cygwin setup .exe file – Click Here
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Make sure you are downloading the appropriate version based on your operating system. Offline
(Check your system is either 64 bit operating system or 32 bit operating system). I have
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4) Leave the default option selected as Install from Internet and click on Next.

5) Leave the default name Root Directory and click on Next.

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6) Click on Next.

7) Click on Next again.

8) Select any download mirror and click on Next.

Similarly keep on clicking next until you get this screen-

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9) It will take a little long time to download and install so please keep patient. After successfully
installation, go to your desktop and double click on icon-

Or Go to Start and click on Cygwin64 Terminal option.

10) Once you double click you will see the Cygwin window looks similar as Windows command
prompt.

On this window also you can write UNIX commands and execute. But using this window you
can’t update or access any file. So might be it’s not much useful here.

To perform other additional operation and to work on normal Windows command prompt we
need to set Cygwin path.

Please follow the process to set the Cygwin path to work on normal Windows command
prompt.

1) Go to Start and Right Click on Computer and Select properties.

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2) Click on Advanced system settings shown on left side.

3) Click on Advanced tab and then Environment Variables button.

4) Under system variables select Path and then click on Edit button.

5) In variable value at the end add ;C:\cygwin64\bin\

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6) Click OK and close all the windows opened.

Open your windows command prompt and type any LINUX command. I have typed here
“echo” and got the result ECHO is on. Wow it works!

Now you have successfully set the path and ready to run UNIX commands in Windows default
command prompt.

Hope you are happy with running LINUX commands in the Windows machine.

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5 Responses to “Run UNIX/LINUX commands in Windows”

Peeush
August 20, 2016 at 10:54 am

With cygwin, can we execute any kind of shell scripts we know or are there any limitations?
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Veena
August 18, 2016 at 4:45 am

this article is very helpful. Thanks a ton

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Manoj Kumar
August 12, 2016 at 12:27 pm

Mentioned steps are very helpful. Could you please provide same information to install Unix in
Window XP and Window-10
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Jeetu
July 16, 2016 at 7:04 am

good information
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Ashwini
May 12, 2016 at 8:37 am

I am trying to execute Unix commands but this is not working on windows 7..giving this
error”command no recognized by internal or external command”

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