Babun is linux kind of shell to work in windows platform. I first came to know about babun from zeroturnaround article. You can read about babun more here. Here are the list of features which
a) scp causes some trouble when working with cygwin. scp works well with babun. The experience is the same as if the machine is Linux. Babun also helps auto completing the hostname (pressing tab enables this) for the 2nd and subsequent times when doing ssh/scp.
b) To run the previous command which started with, for example, xyz, we run !xyz in linux. The drawback is that we don't know what command will run till the command gets executed (at least this happens in sles machines). But in babun after we type !xy and pressing tab it displays what was the command that was last repeated which started with xy. Very much helpful.
c) Babun also displays the working directory at the right hand side of the place where we type commands. It helps us to know in which is our current working directory without typing pwd.
d) Babun shell, by default, has huge amount of buffer size (99000 lines) which helps us to know all the commands that got executed from the time the shell got launched. This is not by default enabled in windows cmd. Max height size of windows cmd's screen buffer size is 9999 lines.
e) history command is also supported.
As babun is built on top of cygwin, it supports vi editor, find, cd -, grep, ls, pwd and other linux commands.
There are some linux commands like ifconfig, which are not supported.
a) scp causes some trouble when working with cygwin. scp works well with babun. The experience is the same as if the machine is Linux. Babun also helps auto completing the hostname (pressing tab enables this) for the 2nd and subsequent times when doing ssh/scp.
b) To run the previous command which started with, for example, xyz, we run !xyz in linux. The drawback is that we don't know what command will run till the command gets executed (at least this happens in sles machines). But in babun after we type !xy and pressing tab it displays what was the command that was last repeated which started with xy. Very much helpful.
c) Babun also displays the working directory at the right hand side of the place where we type commands. It helps us to know in which is our current working directory without typing pwd.
d) Babun shell, by default, has huge amount of buffer size (99000 lines) which helps us to know all the commands that got executed from the time the shell got launched. This is not by default enabled in windows cmd. Max height size of windows cmd's screen buffer size is 9999 lines.
e) history command is also supported.
As babun is built on top of cygwin, it supports vi editor, find, cd -, grep, ls, pwd and other linux commands.
There are some linux commands like ifconfig, which are not supported.
