On replacing mini-cygwin's job with something a little less messy

[jhudsoncedaron]

My checklist ended up looking like this:

[X] find
[X] xargs
[X] tr
[X] ln
[X] readlink
[-] sed (but a third party package is available on winget)
[-] unix2dos (you might know it as todos--the name varies)
[-] dos2unix (you might know it as fromdos--the name varies)
[-] chown
[/] rm (fixed in next release)
[/] grep (fixed in next release)
[X] wc
[X] permissive file sharing
[-] rsync

I actually wrote a small piece of code to verify the permissive locking: this comes up from time to time still because node likes to open files with DELETE (probably due to using MAXIMUM_ALLOWED) which means most Windows programs won't open them. grep $ file can read it though.

Yup; I expect chown should just work. There's an old binary from the NT4 days I could replace it with if I had to; but it's kind of worse than cygwin's version.

I have to admit, rsync is a nightmare, but there's already a discussion or two for that so I don't need to add to it.

Chown also has its own work item. So that leaves to discuss:

[-] sed (but a third party package is available on winget)
[-] unix2dos (you might know it as todos--the name varies)
[-] dos2unix (you might know it as fromdos--the name varies)