powerful command line utility

Question

Hi guys,

Can anyone recommend me a better command-line utility than the built-in 'cmd' window that comes with winXP.

any recommendation would be helpful. Vote for others if you support it so i'll get a better sense what the community thinks.

Thanks

Answer 1

One word : PowerShell.

It's a great command runner, it's extensible using .NET classes, it's the de facto standard for any admin interface from Microsoft to come.... do you need more reasons? :-)

Answer 2

The answer really depends on what you're trying to accomplish, but have you looked at cygwin?

Answer 3

Console (marked as beta but stable in practice).

It's just a console replacement, not a new Unix like shell like Bash under Cygwin. And actually, I'm running Cywgin inside Console.