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How to download individual cygwin packages (and/or individual files within them) without running cygwin's setup.exe on local system?

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I only need specific files without cygwin environment. Is there a way for example to download latest version of some unix tools file, like for example grep.exe and latest cygwin1.exe file, and that's it. Edit: I know that browsing is possible here : http://cygwin.com/packages/ , ok, but this list d…

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I'm not aware of any standalone program that does this in an off-the-shelf manner without requiring larger chunks of Cygwin and its (see edit at bottom if that's what you need). I think that all of the pieces are there to make a super-minimal instal…

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