Winix Schedule Troy Willmot

Use this command to install Winix Schedule:

winget install --id=Winix.Schedule -e

Winix Schedule is a cross-platform task scheduler designed to simplify recurring task management using cron expressions. Built as part of the Winix suite of tools, it provides a unified interface for scheduling tasks across Windows, Linux, and macOS, with consistent syntax and output.

Key Features:

Cron Syntax Support: Leverages familiar cron expressions for defining schedules, enabling precise control over task execution times.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Works seamlessly on Windows, Linux, and macOS, ensuring consistent behavior across environments.
Integration with Native Systems: Utilizes underlying platform-specific schedulers (e.g., Windows Task Scheduler or crontab) while abstracting their complexities.
Daemonless Operation: Tasks run directly without requiring a background service, reducing overhead and simplifying setup.
Structured Output: Supports JSON output for programmatic interaction, enabling integration with CI/CD pipelines or custom scripts.

Audience & Benefit:

Ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators who need to manage recurring tasks across multiple platforms. Winix Schedule streamlines task scheduling by eliminating the need to learn platform-specific syntax, ensuring consistent execution, and providing reliable task management without additional runtime dependencies. Its ability to generate structured output makes it a valuable tool for automating workflows in modern development environments.

Installable via winget on Windows, Winix Schedule bridges the gap between platforms, offering a seamless experience for managing tasks in cross-platform environments.

Winix

Cross-platform CLI tools for the gaps between Windows and *nix.

Winix is a suite of small, focused command-line tools compiled to native binaries via .NET AOT. Each tool fills a gap where a standard Unix utility either doesn't exist on Windows, has no good cross-platform implementation, or where a modern take can genuinely improve on the original. Tools are designed to be composable — piping, exit codes, and structured output work the way Unix users expect — while also being readable by humans in the terminal with colour, tables, and clear error messages. Windows has powerful scripting, but many of its built-in tools produce output that's difficult to pipe, parse, or read at a glance. Every Winix tool ships as a single native binary with no runtime dependency.

Tools

Tool	What it does
timeit	Time a command — wall clock, CPU time, peak memory, exit code
squeeze	Compress and decompress files (gzip, brotli, zstd)
peep	Watch a command on interval + re-run on file changes
wargs	Build and execute commands from stdin
files	Find files by name, size, date, type, and content
treex	Enhanced directory tree with colour, filtering, size rollups

Tool	Windows	Linux / macOS
timeit	Nothing built-in. `Measure-Command` exists but doesn't show memory, doesn't pass exit codes, can't be piped.	Improves on `time` with peak memory, machine-readable JSON, and proper exit-code passthrough.
squeeze	No native CLI for compression. Users install 3+ separate tools or reach for 7-Zip.	One tool instead of separate `gzip`, `brotli`, `zstd` CLIs. Auto-detects format on decompression.
peep	No `watch`. No `entr`. PowerShell loops are verbose and don't handle file-watching.	Combines `watch` (interval) + `entr` (file-change trigger) in one binary with a TUI.
wargs	No `xargs`. `ForEach-Object` is PowerShell-only and doesn't handle parallel execution or line-delimited input well.	Sane defaults over `xargs`: line-delimited, no `-0` needed, correct quoting on all platforms.
files	No `find`. `Get-ChildItem` exists but is slow, verbose, and PowerShell-only.	Cleaner than `find`, with glob patterns, gitignore support, text/binary detection, and JSON output.
treex	Built-in `tree` is bare-bones (no colour, no sizes, no filtering).	Adds colour, size rollups, gitignore, clickable hyperlinks, and filtering over standard `tree`.
man	No `man` at all.	Alternative renderer with colour and hyperlinks. Renders groff natively — no groff install needed. Bundled pager.
less	No pager. `more` exists but can't scroll back, search, or handle ANSI colour.	Better defaults than system `less`: ANSI colour on by default, mouse scroll, follow mode.
whoholds	No built-in file-lock query. `handle.exe` (Sysinternals) requires a separate download + admin rights.	Wraps `lsof` with cleaner output, structured JSON, and a unified syntax for both files and ports.
schedule	`schtasks.exe` exists but is notoriously hard to script. No cron syntax.	Unified interface over `crontab` with the same flags and output format as Windows.
nc	No `netcat`. `Test-NetConnection` is verbose and limited.	Consistent behaviour across BSD/GNU/ncat forks. Adds TLS client support and port-range checking.
winix	Suite installer via Scoop or winget.	Suite installer via brew or dotnet tool.

Winix Schedule Troy Willmot

README

Winix

Tools

Why each tool, on each platform

Install

Scoop (Windows)

Winget (Windows, stable releases)

.NET Tool (cross-platform)

Direct Download

Quick Start

For AI agents

Building from source

License