Colorconsole Alternatives

Colorconsole is described as 'ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Colorconsole for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best Colorconsole alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Colorconsole are Windows Command Prompt, win-bash, Take Command and CMD++.

Colorconsole alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be Shells. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Colorconsole.

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ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console .

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PowerShell
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Shell
Mac
Windows
Linux
61 PowerShell alternatives
PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
- - PowerShell is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Colorconsole.
- - PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Colorconsole.
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PowerShell Features
1. Support for scriptingPowerShell supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsPowerShell can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
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Windows Command Prompt
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Paid • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
Shell
Windows
40 Windows Command Prompt alternatives
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.
- - Windows Command Prompt is the most popular commercial alternative to Colorconsole.
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Windows Command Prompt Features
1. Command line interfaceWindows Command Prompt either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Support for scriptingWindows Command Prompt supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
3. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsWindows Command Prompt can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
win-bash
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Free • Open Source
Shell
Terminal Emulator
Windows
35 win-bash alternatives
win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an inte.
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win-bash Features
1. Command line interfacewin-bash either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Interpreter
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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Take Command
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
17 Take Command alternatives
The most powerful Windows console command line tools and batch scripting solution available. Create batch file commands and Windows batch files that you can use every day - for everything from launching applications to serious file management and scripting.
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Take Command Features
1. Command line interfaceTake Command either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
CMD++
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Free • Open Source
Windows
28 CMD++ alternatives
CMD++ is a command line program, which was devoloped as alternative to the Windows (R) console. You can use it at public places (eg. at school) when the native console is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).
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Discontinued
last release in 2009 per sourceforge. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmdpp/files/
Gregs DOS Shell (GS.EXE)
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Shell
Windows
5 Gregs DOS Shell (GS.EXE) alternatives
GS.EXE (Gregs DOS Shell) is an alternative DOS shell, with improved editing features, command history, and support for glass.
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