Yeah, compiling `grep` with MSYS2 is as easy as `configure && make && make 
install`, woohoo.
The only additional dependency it creates is `pcre` but this is ok I guess.

Now the question is: would it be ok to include a pre-compiled grep.exe in this 
script or add a few lines to the script to download, unpack and build `grep` on 
the fly to make it more transparent where it comes from?
I'd vote for the latter option but it will increase runtime of the script 
signifanctly because compiling `grep` will take some time (to be exact it is 
rather running `configure` which is slow).

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