# How to add more to Git Bash on Windows 

[Git for Windows](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) is bundled with "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine.
It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.

The basic idea is that `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\` is your `/` directory according to Git Bash.
If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (`bin`, `etc`, `lib` and so on). 
If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corrisponding directories. 
Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so you should rename the exe file to the standard name.
Since `bin` is on the PATH, it will be automatically available to Git Bash.

Here are some to add:

## wget 

- Download the lastest wget binary for windows from https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ (they are available as a zip with documentation, or just an exe)
- If you downloaded the zip, extract all.
- Move `wget.exe` to `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\`

## make

- Go to ezwinports, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
- Download `make-4.1-2-without-guile-w32-bin.zip` (get the version without guile)
- Extract zip
- Copy the contents to `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\` merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any exisiting files.