Hamilton C shell AlternativesShells and other similar apps like Hamilton C shell

Hamilton C shell is described as 'Complete Unix shell environment for Windows, including all the important utilities, mv, cp, rm, more, grep, fgrep, head, tail, diff, sed, cron, tar and so on. There’s even a real chown, a real su (super user) and a sudo alias to run a command elevated' and is a Shell in the development category. There are nine alternatives to Hamilton C shell for Windows, Linux, Snapcraft and Mac. The best Hamilton C shell alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hamilton C shell are Cygwin, MSYS2, Windows Command Prompt and PyCmd.

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Hamilton C shell alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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  1. PowerShell icon
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    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.

    67 PowerShell alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  PowerShell Scripting
    3.  Optimized for Windows
    4.  Command line interface
    5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    6.  Autocompletion

    PowerShell VS Hamilton C shell

     
    Comments about PowerShell as an Alternative to Hamilton C shell
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    Completely different language style. Very long command names in powershell, very short in C shell. Character stream piping in the C shell, structured objects in powershell.

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    • PowerShell is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Hamilton C shell.

    • PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Hamilton C shell.

    • PowerShell is Free and Open SourceHamilton C shell is Paid and Proprietary
    • PowerShell is LightweightHamilton C shell is not according to our users
  2. Cygwin icon
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    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.

    28 Cygwin alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Cygwin Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Linux on Windows
    3.  SSH
    4.  POSIX-compatible
    5.  ANSI color support

    Cygwin VS Hamilton C shell

     
  3. MSYS2 icon
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    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.

    20 MSYS2 alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows

    MSYS2 Features

    1.  Command line/bash
    2.  Linux on Windows
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  POSIX-compatible
    5.  Support for scripting

    MSYS2 VS Hamilton C shell

     
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    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.

    40 Windows Command Prompt alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Support for scripting

    Windows Command Prompt VS Hamilton C shell

     
  5. PyCmd icon
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    PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells (decent Tab-completion, persistent history, etc.) while remaining 100% compatible with the cmd.exe syntax.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    PyCmd Features

    1.  Command line interface

    PyCmd VS Hamilton C shell

     
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    Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.

    17 Penteract CMD GUI Creator alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Penteract CMD GUI Creator Features

    1.  Command line interface

    Penteract CMD GUI Creator VS Hamilton C shell

     
  7. win-bash icon
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    win-bash Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter

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  8. TCC/LE icon
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    TCC/LE is a complete CMD replacement, and is compatible with your existing Windows command prompt and CMD batch files, while adding thousands of new features.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TCC/LE Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Command line interface

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  9. CMD++ icon
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    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).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    last release in 2009 per sourceforge. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmdpp/files/

    CMD++ VS Hamilton C shell

     
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