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These are primary (meaning first party, not lists curated by others) sites/projects that provide multiple tools or multiple functions in one tool:

Collections that provide Unix tool ports to Windows users:

• Cygwin (Entry).
• UnxUtils (Entry).
• Gow (Gnu On Windows) (Entry).
• Busybox (Entry). One executable but tools are usually more limited that their full versions
• uutils. Cross-platform (including Windows) ports of Unix tools, like coreutils in Rust.
• MSYS2 (Entry).
• GnuWin (Entry).
• ezwinports (Entry).
• see here for more.
• Moluccas (TumaGonx Zakkum) (also wget and aria and CDRTools)
• eternallybored.org (Jernej Simončič) (wget, netcat, gifsicle)
• MobaXterm (Entry). GUI application focusing on networking with many Unix CLI tools.

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Multiple tools form one developer/group (if you liked a tool, you may like its sisters ):

• Built-in Windows tools
• Sysinternals
• BYTE* Tools
• cmdtools.com (Archive Link)
• Core Technologies. A couple of the free tools are CLI.
• DSToolBox
• F2KO CMD Tools (Archive Link)
• Gammadyne's Free DOS Utilities
• Helge Klein
• Horst Schaeffer's console tools
• Jason Hood
• Joakim Schicht
• LTRData (author of ImDisk)
• Luigi Auriemma
• p-nand-q.com
• pc-tools.net
• Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages (Some of the tools are others', some are his)
• Softspecialists
• Stefan's Tools. A couple of the free tools are CLI.
• Uwe Sieber's Homepage
• West Mesa Tech
• xs4all
• Yori (many tools with Yori itself that perform various functions).
  https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/utility/

Some specialized tool groups:
CompressMe.net (Ilya Muravyov) (Compression Software. See Encode's Forum for more)

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A single tool with many functions:

• Swiss File Knife (forum topic)
• Busybox. See under Unix Tools.
• uutils. See under Unix Tools. Currently available: Coreutils
• NirCmd (forum topic)

Post 2. Reserved for future expansion.

Thanks a billon
Added, except for RareWares since it lists 3rd party tools (so added to the other topic). Added https://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/ to both topics

I see Cygwin and Busybox as well as several other "collections" but don't see MobaXTerm listed --> https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1952

The developer has been quite active on the site and deserves to have his project listed as well. Sorry if it was listed on one of the threads and I missed it.

Joakim Schicht (RawCopy etc.)
reboot.pro

thepiney wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:23 am I see Cygwin and Busybox as well as several other "collections" but don't see MobaXTerm listed --> https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1952

The developer has been quite active on the site and deserves to have his project listed as well. Sorry if it was listed on one of the threads and I missed it.

Well, it has a GUI! But it is relevant enough that I will add it to the list. Thanks.

billon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 4:37 pm Joakim Schicht (RawCopy etc.)

Added!

reboot.pro

Is that about CLI tools?

Ding-A-Ling wrote: ↑I see that Swiss Knife Tool has been listed here but NirCMD, a similar commandline multi-tool, hasn't.

You might want to check again, my dear Ding-A-Ling -- viewtopic.php?t=4288.

Thank you both! Added.

Ding-A-Ling wrote: ↑I was referring to this specific thread.

Oh! My excuses, then.

Topic update: uutils v0.0.6 released (changelog and downloads at https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases).

uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. This repository is intended to aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.

Please note that while some regular *nix shell commands aren't fully implemented, uutils doesn't include (yet) the following at all: chcon, dd, numfmt, pr, runcon, stty.

vevy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:49 pm [*]Swiss File Knife (forum topic)

I'm glad this topic came up again so I could repeat my praise for SFK. That program just never stops coming in handy.

uutils v0.23 released 2023-11-14 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases).

Homepage of the uutils project is now at https://uutils.github.io/:

The uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in Rust. Our goal is to modernize the utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities.