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PowerShell alternatives

  • ConEmu

  • Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAR_Manager ).Today, ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY for example). ConEmu is an active project, open to suggestions.

    tags: Portable command-line console create-ssh-users customizable
  • cmder

  • Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.

    tags: Portable command-line-interface developer-tools tabbed-interface terminal-client
  • Cygwin

  • Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.

    tags: command-line compatibility-layer console linux-on-windows shell
  • KiTTY

  • What is KiTTY ?KiTTY is a fork from version 0.69 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform. For more information about the original software, or pre-compiled binaries on other systems, you can go to the Simon Tatham PuTTY page.

    tags: Portable automatic-logon console serial-connections session-management
  • GNOME Terminal

  • GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[

    tags: bash gnome terminal-client xterm
  • iTerm2

  • This is a fork of the iTerm project hosted on Sourceforge, the development of which has been languishing for a while. iTerm2 is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.

    tags: annotate-history console customizable dual-pane growl-integration
  • clink

  • Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe".If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline' library that Bash uses). It is a small utility to enhance "cmd.exe", adding more powerful command line completion, editing, and history.

    tags: command-line-interface console bash readline windows-prompt
  • Windows Command Prompt

  • Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems (where it is also called "MS-DOS Prompt"), and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems.

    tags: command-line-interface command-line-interpreter command-prompt extensible scripting
  • Yakuake

  • Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.Yakuake, in the same way as Kate, KDevelop and Konqueror, relies on Konsole to offer the terminal functionality, embedding it in the application as a KPart component.

    tags: built-in-search-engine console dropdown-terminal kde make-window-transparent
  • MSYS2

  • MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

    tags: arch-linux cygwin mingw32 mingw64 package-management
  • gow

  • Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to be as small as possible, about 10 MB, as opposed to Cygwin which can run well over 100 MB depending upon options.

    tags: cygwin developer-tools development development-suite mingw
  • mintty

  • Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

    tags: console cygwin terminal-client