better command for Windows? [closed]

Answer 1

If you are a bit of a Pythonista then iPython is tough to beat. It has some of the more common shell commands coded in (i.e. ls, pwd, cd etc.), can also run any other shell command by prefixing with '!' (i.e. !latex file.tex) but also is a full Python shell with history, tab-complete, multiline editor support, logging etc. etc.

Moreover, you can install iPython back on your UNIX boxes as well as Windows meaning your environment can follow wherever you go.

Answer 2

I know you said you don't want to install anything, but I strongly suggest you give Services For Unix a shot:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb380242.aspx

Answer 3

Some more options:

MSYS: a Minimal SYStem providing a POSIX compatible Bourne shell environment, with a small collection of UNIX command line tools. Primarily developed as a means to execute the configure scripts and Makefiles used to build Open Source software, but also useful as a general purpose command line interface to replace Windows cmd.exe.

GNU utilities for Win32: ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.

Answer 4

There is a new-ish open source Console Emulator called cmder. It looks really nice and has some advanced features that make it nicer to use. You can also use powershell with it. Best of all, it's portable!

Answer 5

I use Console with unxutils

Console for the tabs and easier to manage select/copy/paste

unxutils for ls, rm, grep, uniq, sort ... and other goodness.

Answer 6

I'm using powershell, its awesome to keep you from going crazy, and it has rm and mkdir and ls. Tabbed terminals is still not in powershell, and copy paste is similar to cmd, but its way better than cmd.exe.