Cygwin and WSL on Windows
Users discuss and compare Cygwin, WSL, MSYS2, and similar tools for running Unix-like shells, bash, and CLI utilities on Windows for development.
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You might want to check out WSL; it has the exact same convenience as cygwin, but is now coming direct from Microsoft.
Cygwin and you can do exactly this on Windows too. For me Cygwin is a bless.
Cygwin makes life bearable on Windows.
Use Cygwin for Linux like environment on Windows.
Looks nice! Why cygwin and not wsl though?
Try Cygwin! It’s a *nix environment for Windows. I plan to install it once I get my hands on this beauty. Package management still works for CLIs, I suppose.
Check out Windows subsystem for Linux - you can almost certainly skip cygwin entirely and run the same binaries you like from Ubuntu.
Let me know how it does compared to Cygwin!
What's the Windows equivalent for that? (without Cygwin or likes)
Cygwin and MSYS2 are really underrated for this. I think they do exactly what you want. I often use Bash and find to manage files on Windows.