Hamilton C shell is described as 'Complete Unix shell environment for Windows, including all the important utilities, mv, cp, rm, more, grep, fgrep, head, tail, diff, sed, cron, tar and so on. There’s even a real chown, a real su (super user) and a sudo alias to run a command elevated' and is a Shell in the development category. There are nine alternatives to Hamilton C shell for Windows, Linux, Snapcraft and Mac. The best Hamilton C shell alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hamilton C shell are Cygwin, Windows Command Prompt, MSYS2 and PyCmd.
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.
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.
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.
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.
Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.
win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).
The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an inte.
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.
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 is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).
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Completely different language style. Very long command names in powershell, very short in C shell. Character stream piping in the C shell, structured objects in powershell.