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Rook
Asked: 2009-05-29 09:53:27 +0800 CST

windows cmd shell environments

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I use it regularly (cmd), but let's be frank, its environment sucks. No tabs, resizing the window is a pain, ... and so on.

Console2 and PowerCmd fix some of these problems. But still, I'd love to know are there any other environments for cmd shell. If you know of any, do tell.

shell windows-command-prompt

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  1. Have you looked into PowerShell? It doesn't have tabs, and its resizing isn't great, but it's a huge advance over the cmd shell language.

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  2. Cygwin is the closest thing I can think of to a full featured shell environment on a windows machine. If you are at all familiar with a *nix environment check out Cygwin. PowerShell is also a great option and a drastic improvement of cmd.exe.

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  3. Best Answer

    I've also heard of Terminator and Poderosa.

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  4. If you want unix command shell, install the services for unix and run the unix shell of your choice. Powershell is probably the best shell I've seen for any OS. powershell v2 will have a full ISE. I'd stay away from anything involving cygwin as there are alot of gotchas involved in getting cygwin installed and working (and I've never run into something that cygwin does that can't be done in the unix subsystem)

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