Cygwin
Open Source
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.
Windows Command Prompt
Commercial
Windows Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the command-line interpreter on Windows.
PyCmd
Open Source
PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows' cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features.
MSYS2
Open Source
MinGW-w64
Open Source
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) is a free and open source software development environment for creating Microsoft Windows applications.
PowerShell
Open Source
PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a comm…
gow
Open Source
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNI…
Babun
Open Source
Babun is a feature rich windows shell.
TCC/LE
Freemium
Take Command Console (TCC) is a command line interpreter designed as a substitute for the default command interpreter in Microsoft Windows, CMD.EXE.
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