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.
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PyCmd Alternatives
PyCmd is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PyCmd for Windows, Linux, BSD, Snapcraft and Mac. The best PyCmd alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PyCmd are Cygwin, MinGW, Windows Command Prompt and MSYS2.
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- 68 PowerShell alternatives
28 Cygwin alternativesCygwin 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any...
42 Windows Command Prompt alternativesCommand 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.
20 MSYS2 alternativesMSYS2 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.
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
40 win-bash alternativeswin-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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Hamilton C shell™ is a 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.
