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.

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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 PyCmd.
- - PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PyCmd.
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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.
PowerShell Scripting
Optimized for Windows
Cygwin
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Free • Open Source
Shell
Windows
31 Cygwin alternatives
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.
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Cygwin Features
1. Command line interfaceCygwin either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Linux on Windows
SSH
POSIX-compatible
ANSI color support
Runtime environment
MinGW
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
24 MinGW alternatives
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...
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MinGW Features
1. PortableMinGW can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
C++
Cross Compiler
C support
GNU/linux-libre
Native application compiler
MSYS2
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
38 MSYS2 alternatives
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.
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MSYS2 Features
1. Command line interfaceMSYS2 either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Support for scriptingMSYS2 supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Command line/bash
Linux on Windows
POSIX-compatible
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 PyCmd.
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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.
gow
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Free • Open Source
Windows
24 gow alternatives
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
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Discontinued
No activity for over a year.
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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TCC/LE
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
21 TCC/LE alternatives
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.
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TCC/LE Features
1. Support for scriptingTCC/LE supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. Command line interfaceTCC/LE either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Penteract CMD GUI Creator
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
17 Penteract CMD GUI Creator alternatives
Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.
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Penteract CMD GUI Creator Features
1. Command line interfacePenteract CMD GUI Creator 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/
Hamilton C shell
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Paid • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
9 Hamilton C shell alternatives
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.
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Hamilton C shell Features
1. Command line interfaceHamilton C shell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Support for scriptingHamilton C shell supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Support for 64 bit