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 and Mac. The best PyCmd alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PyCmd are Cygwin, MinGW, MSYS2 and Windows Command Prompt.
PyCmd 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 PyCmd.PowerShell
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Shell
61 PowerShell alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 PyCmd.
- - PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PyCmd.
PowerShell Features
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.
Cygwin Features
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...
MSYS2
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo38 MSYS2 alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Windows
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.
MSYS2 Features
Windows Command Prompt
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo40 Windows Command Prompt alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Terminal Emulator
- Shell
- Windows
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 PyCmd.
Windows Command Prompt Features
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
DiscontinuedNo activity for over a year.
win-bash
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo35 win-bash alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Shell
- Terminal Emulator
- Windows
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.
win-bash Features
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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.
TCC/LE Features
Penteract CMD GUI Creator
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo17 Penteract CMD GUI Creator alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.
Penteract CMD GUI Creator Features
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).
Discontinuedlast release in 2009 per sourceforge. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmdpp/files/
Hamilton C shell
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo9 Hamilton C shell alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Shell
- 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.
Hamilton C shell Features