[TriLUG] WSL vs CYGWIN (again)

[Stephen Wiley via TriLUG]

Do you need that at all? Windows ships with OpenSSH these days and IIRC
rsync has a Windows port. If it's just a one-liner you should be able to
launch it from a batch file instead. 

--Stephen

On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 02:09:07PM -0500, Ron Belcher via TriLUG wrote:
> I have just become aware of WSL as I was fixing to install CYGWIN on my
> wife's W11 machine.
> As a newbie, I would appreciate your opinion on which is more suitable for
> me.
> The only thing I want to run on her machine is an /rsync/ shell script.
> Advice?
> 
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