PowerShell

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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windows powershell is an extensible commandline shell and associated scripting language from microsoft. windows powershell integrates with the microsoft .net framework and provides an environment for execution of cmdlets, which are specialized .net classes implementing a particular operation, scripts, which are composition of cmdlets along with imperative logic, executables, which are standalone applications, or by instantiating regular .net classes. these work by accessing data in different data stores, like the filesystem or registry.

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The Best 46 PowerShell Alternatives

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ConEmu

windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple gui applications as one customizable gui window with various features. initially, the program was created as a companion to https://alternativein .

Free Open Source Windows

Customizable Portable Tabbed interface Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Create SSH users Quake style Split screen view
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Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

Free Open Source Windows

SSH ANSI color support
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KiTTY

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY that adds extra features. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Session management SSH Auto login
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cmder

cmder is an open-source replacement for the windows command-line. it relies on conemu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.

Free Open Source Windows clink ConEmu Windows Command Prompt PowerShell

Portable Tabbed interface Command line interface ANSI color support Built in SSH client Command line/bash
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GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[

Free Open Source Linux BSD
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iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Free Open Source Mac

Customizable Multiple languages Integrated Search Dual pane support Clean design Growl integration SSH Quake style Annotate history Terminal Emulator
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MinGW

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
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Console

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Tabbed interface
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Terminal

The built in terminal window on Mac OS. Totally not bloated, does what it should in a 'lean but mean' way.

Free Mac OS X
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Yakuake

Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Quake style Built in search engine Dropdown terminal Make window transparent Split tabs
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Windows Command Prompt

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.

Commercial Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Scripting Command line interface
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clink

Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe". If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.

Free Open Source Windows
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mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.

Free Open Source Windows
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gow

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.

Free Open Source Windows
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MSYS2

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.

Free Open Source Windows
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ConsoleZ

console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

Free Open Source Windows
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iTerm

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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PyCmd

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 syntax.

Free Open Source Windows
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LXTerminal

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency. LXTerminal supports multiple tabs.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
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FireCMD

FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell.

Commercial Windows

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The Best 46 PowerShell Alternatives

ConEmu

Cygwin

KiTTY

cmder

GNOME Terminal

iTerm2

MinGW

Console

Terminal

Yakuake

Windows Command Prompt

clink

mintty

gow

MSYS2

ConsoleZ

iTerm

PyCmd

LXTerminal

FireCMD

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