Best way to get 'linux command line tools' on Windows [closed]

Best way to get 'linux command line tools' on Windows [closed] I'd like to download the basic stuff like 'rm -rf'.
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"I'm a big fan of GnuWin32.

You can download just the packages you need; each stands alone so you don't need to install any core Unix emulation layer like with Cygwin."

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"Stupid Idea I just had: Build a busybox binary. It should have just the bare essentials.

You could, perhaps, easily build a standalone, portable, minimalistic cygwin distro (with just the registry entries and the .dll files)."