The Best 30 win-bash Alternatives

  • GNU Bourne Again SHell icon

    GNU Bourne Again SHell

    Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh).

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • PowerShell icon

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MinGW icon

    MinGW

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

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

  • zsh icon

    zsh

    Zsh is a shell (e.g. bash replacement) designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. .

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • fish icon

    fish

    fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Finally, a command line shell for the 90s.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

    Autocompletion Color coding
  • clink icon

    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

  • gow icon

    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

  • PyCmd icon

    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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    TCC/LE

    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.

    Freemium Windows

  • PowerGui icon

    PowerGui

    a graphical user interface and script editor for microsoft windows powershell . powergui will provide users with a graphical powershell administration console with an integrated editor and debugger.

    Free Windows

  • KornShell icon

    KornShell

    The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive command language that provides access to the UNIX...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Cygwin

  • Take Command icon

    Take Command

    The most powerful Windows console command line tools and batch scripting solution available. Create batch file commands and Windows batch files that you can use every...

    Commercial Windows

  • PASH icon

    PASH

    PowerShell open source reimplementation for "others" (Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc...) and Windows (including Windows Mobile and Windows CE).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Windows Mobile Solaris

    Scripting Scripting language
  • dash icon

    dash

    DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • CMD++ icon

    CMD++

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • rc - a shell icon

    rc - a shell

    This is a reimplementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell. rc offers much the same capabilities as a traditional Bourne shell, but with a much cleaner...

    Free Open Source Linux