Command Prompt Portable + UnxUtils + UTools = Portable Colored Console Goodness

In keeping with portability, and my "Everest" of having every tool leaving no 'footprint' in windows, I use the following for portable console development.

For this example, let's assume your 'portable' drive is "P:\" - (I actually use a 2nd sata drive for my portable apps as not to fill up my SSD Win7 Ultimate OS drive)

Process:

1. Download files
2. Create Directory Structure
3. Install Command Prompt Portable
4. Copy UnxUtils.zip\usr\local\wbin\*.exe to bin folder
5. Copy msls231.exe\*.exe to bin folder (overwriting 3 files)
6. Modify commandprompt.bat

Basic layout:

• P:\PortableApps
• P:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\bin\*.* (From UnxUtils)
• P:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\bin\ls.exe (From utools - msls231.exe)
• P:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\bin\grep.exe (From utools - msls231.exe)
• P:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\bin\dircolors.exe (From utools - msls231.exe)
• P:\PortableApps\CommandPromptPortable
• P:\PortableApps\CommandPromptPortable\Data\Batch\commandprompt.bat

Downloads:

• CommandPromptPortable_2.1.paf.exe
• link
• Download UnxUtils.zip
• link
• Download U-Tools - IMHO a better ls.exe, grep.exe & dircolors.exe
• link link

Change commandprompt.bat contents to:


@echo off
color 07
prompt $m$p$_$g
title Command Prompt Portable
cls
ver
FOR /F %%i IN ("..\CommonFiles\bin") DO SET PATH=%%~fi;%PATH%
SET LS_OPTIONS=-bhAC --more --color=auto --recent --streams
SET GREP_OPTIONS=--binary-files=text -d skip --color=auto


I have included the final version for clarity - I do not have all the GNU licenses, nor kudos for those hard working development teams, but I do wish to thank each an every one of you!

final
To test:

• Run CommandPromptPortable.exe
• ls -laR
• ls -l | grep -i "p.h"

thx!
-GC