Set of improvements

[ildar-shaimordanov]

Hi Brent,

Please have a look into this pull request and give your feedback. It could be very useful for your project. There is the list of changes made in my version:

1. gow.vbs rewritten in JScript and embedded to the single batch script (no .vbs and .bat)
2. etc/ directory exists to allow running bash in the interactive mode
3. false, true, gunzip, scp, sftp, ssh, whereis, clear, cpio, zcat, zless, zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep, find - wrapper commands added to be running under bash
4. etc/profile, etc/bash.bashrc added (partially borrowed from Cygwin) to make bash be closer to bash in unix.
5. false.bat, true.bat, gunzip.bat, scp.bat, sftp.bat, zcat.bat, zless.bat - batch analogs for some popular unix commands.

As you can see, there are no external dependencies, only pure scripts.

All these changes allow
a) use utilities both under cmd and under bash and
b) be competitive with elder brothers like Cygwin or MSys.
c) use Gow in the alternative way, as portable bash environment without installer

Thanks,
Ildar

[bmatzelle]

Wow, thank you @ildar-shaimordanov. I'll review these changes.

[grimblefritz]

For those unfamiliar with git, I have placed these (and other) updates into .tar files and homed them here:

http://grimblefritz.com/gow

Details as to changes provided on that page.

Updated May 15, 2016 - Added unzip.exe to complement zip.exe