Setup Cygwin on Windows and Quick Preview

Install Cygwin in windows

• Cygwin is like Unix environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
• Click here to download Cygwin
• Download the .exe file of Cygwin which is supported by your system like 32-bit or 64-bit.
• Install packages ssh, inet packages in Cygwin.

Quick Preview of Cygwin

• Most of the Linux/Unix commands will work with similar functionality.
• The root file system in the Cygwin is C drive, in windows.
• Cygwin is installed in your ‘C’ directory.
• In Cygwin folder, the details of Cygwin is stored.
• We can do passwordless login in Cygwin using ssh-keygen & ssh-copy-id username@hostname.