![]() ![]() There's a whole GUI, and, bless them, it's not pretty. The Bitvise SSH Client is free for personal use and works great. ![]() Bitvise SSH Client - more importantly, SSH from the command line Here's some better SSH clients, including a fork of PuTTY itself. Mad respect to PuTTY for being awesome and super functional, but it's like running Windows 95 in a window every time I launch it. However, the SSH clients for Windows suck. Random: I like to say I 'shoosh' into the machines, but folks keep looking at me weird. For me, I have a Linux farm I run on Azure that I often need to ssh into. What about SSHing? That's a fundamental part of command-line life for folks connecting to remote Unix machines. If you get Cygwin proper you'll get a much more complete "fake Linux" through their very competent set of command line tools, but for most, Git Bash will suffice. However, since the release of Git for Windows most folks I know just install it and use the Git Bash. If you want a Linux-like experience on Windows with a nice shell, Cygwin has long been a choice. ConEmu looks at the current application running and some heuristics and overlays progress. If you're familiar with Windows 7 you are likely familiar with the way that progress bars are overlaid over a Windows 7 Taskbar button. The feature that really blew me away was Progress Bar integration. ConEmu takes your command prompt and adds tabs, status bar details, admin tabs, freakin' taskbar progress bars on copies (which is hot), and deep support for FarManager (Norton Commander anyone?)ĬonEmu is definitely a huge jump for console usability on Windows. I've talked about ConEmu before, but I'll bring some of that over here. It won't win any awards for good looks (again, I come back to the importance of fonts, whitespace, and good typography.get a designer) but it is extremely functional and you already have it! ConEmu Not to mention if you are using PowerShell you already get a full debugger experience. They've aliased the obvious commands "ls" does what you'd expect as does "dir." Moving around will feel like any command prompt. You may not have been exposed to PowerShell and the prospect may frighten you, but try it for a bit. Sure, it's not bash, but that may be a good thing. You can even hide the script pane if you want (Ctrl-R) and just use PowerShell ISE as a console! You get auto completion (see the Directory intellisense below), coloring, aliases and all the power of PowerShell. Surprise! You already have this on your Windows computer. The most significant change that Clink makes is to Tab Completion, moving to a more Bash-y "show them the choices" mode rather than the DOS-like "make them cycle through everything." Here I've pressed TAB over 2013-0 and Clink is showing me what I can choose from. Support for the completion of executables/commands, and environment variables.Read more on Readline's keyboard shortcuts. Bash-like line editing from GNU's Readline library.We all know that there's Cygwin for a bash-like experience in Windows, but Click is a small utility that brings some of those productivity and editing features into cmd.exe directly! It's hooked as well, directly into your cmd.exe window! *rimshot* I just learned about Clink and I'm hooked. Here's some command line utilities that augment and help - but don't yet complete save - the Windows Command Line. Windows folks could definitely "lovingly design" stuff more. They make things that are pretty AND functional. Gorgeous and functional software is why Mac companies like Panic exist. ![]() Am I being petty and focusing on looks? Absolutely. I have to change the fonts to Consolas for the main font and Segoe UI for the rest to make it tolerable. Even then, it's not "pretty." I love these guys, and the ConEmu is truly an amazing and configurable piece of software, but it was written by developers for developers. In 2011 I found Console2, and then in 2012 I moved to ConEmu, a great tabbed terminal for Windows. I love iTerm2 and its tabs, its font handling, its simple elegance. If someone cracks this problem, they're gonna be heroes. There is a massive opportunity for a great, nay, awesome and pretty, command line on Windows. ![]() I've blogged before, in fact in 2004, (!) that Windows is missing the text mode boat. ![]()
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