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busybox-on-windows

How to use a Win32 build of BusyBox to run many of the standard UNIX command line tools on Windows.

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Content

---
name: busybox-on-windows
description: How to use a Win32 build of BusyBox to run many of the standard UNIX command line tools on Windows.
license: MIT
---

BusyBox is a single binary that implements many common Unix tools.

Use this skill only on Windows. If you are on UNIX, then stop here.

Run the following steps only if you cannot find a `busybox.exe` file in the same directory as this document is. 
These are PowerShell commands, if you have a classic `cmd.exe` terminal, then you must use `powershell -Command "..."` to run them.
1. Print the type of CPU: `Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win3

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