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The best Shell alternative to PyCmd is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to PyCmd and five of them are Shells so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Shell alternatives to PyCmd are Cygwin, Windows Command Prompt, win-bash and Hamilton C shell.

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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...

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PyCmd alternatives page was last updated Apr 18, 2023
  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.

    65 PowerShell alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    PowerShell Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  PowerShell Scripting
    3.  Optimized for Windows
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Autocompletion
    PowerShell iconPyCmd Icon

    PowerShell VS PyCmd

    Is PowerShell a good alternative to PyCmd?
     
    • PowerShell is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to PyCmd.

    • PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PyCmd.

    • PowerShell is Free and Open SourcePyCmd is also Free and Open Source
  2. Cygwin icon
     223 likes

    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.

    29 Cygwin alternatives
    Cygwin terminals running on Windows 7

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Cygwin Features

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

    Cygwin VS PyCmd

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  3. Windows Command Prompt icon
     59 likes

    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
    A picture of cmd, with the name blacked out.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Windows Command Prompt Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    Windows Command Prompt iconPyCmd Icon

    Windows Command Prompt VS PyCmd

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  4. 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.

    37 win-bash alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    win-bash Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter
    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 iconPyCmd Icon

    win-bash VS PyCmd

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  5. Hamilton C shell icon
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    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.

    9 Hamilton C shell alternatives
    64-bit Hamilton C shell on Vista.

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Hamilton C shell Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Supports tar files
    4.  Support for 64 bit
    Hamilton C shell iconPyCmd Icon

    Hamilton C shell VS PyCmd

    Is Hamilton C shell a good alternative to PyCmd?
     
    • Hamilton C shell is the most popular commercial alternative to PyCmd.

    • Hamilton C shell is Paid and ProprietaryPyCmd is Free and Open Source
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