better command for Windows? [closed]

Question

While I grew up using MSWindows, I transitioned to my much-loved Mac years ago. I don't want to start a flame war here on operating systems. I do, however, want a terminal a litle closer to what I'm used to.

I'm not asking for full POSIX support - I don't have the patience to install Cygwin - but I miss tabbed terminals, being able to easily cut and paste, and my good friends ls, mkdir, rm, et al. (For these last ones, I could always put .bat files on my path, but that's going to get old fast.)

Anybody have a terminal application for MSWindows XP ?

Answer 1

PowerCmd is great, with a ton of features including tabs, cut/copy/past, etc.

Console is also a great replacement and is a bit more stripped down than PowerCmd (which can sometimes be a little too feature rich.

Also, with both of these, if you have powershell installed, it is possible to run powershell from withing either.

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

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.