Cool Windows Shell + Linux Commands
I don't know about you, but I've always wanted a better, sexier shell for Windows. I've messed about with various DOS shell alternatives over the years, without settling on anything. However, today I think I've found something rather promising. It's called Console, it's Open Source, and you can get it at SourceForge.
Once downloaded, unzip to your program files, pin it to your start menu, and suddenly you've got a much nicer windows shell with tabs, transparency, auto-copy on select, background image support, and much more. Shell-tastic, mate :-)
However, that's only the start. This beauty can be configured to work in Linux style by using it in conjunction with Cygwin. Personally, I find the default Cygwin shell rather ugly and clunky, so this console tool makes it much more friendly IMHO (it's more like using Putty). The upshot of all this is that you can have pipes, grep, rar, gunzip, gawk, ls, tail, and any other favourite Linux commands within easy reach, in a friendly shell window, on your Windows box. Cool eh?
To save you digging around, here's a tip. Setting up Console to work with Cywin is easy - just go into the settings, and in the "Tabs" section set the "Bash Shell" shell setting to C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i. Updated - the --login -i bit actually means that Cygwin will import the correct paths it needs, and give you a coloured output if that's how your Cygwin is set up.. You'll know it works because when you next launch a new shell it'll greet you with bash-3.2$ rather than Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]. Of course, you'll actually need to download and install Cygwin first.
P.S. When downloading Console, be sure to get V2 beta build 122 or above. Otherwise you get a horrid bash crash where processor usage skyrockets.
P.P.S. Thanks to Ben Kittrell for pointing me in the right direction via his blog.
P.P.P.S. If you're interested in RubyOnRails development, then see this other post.
Comments
-
hi, installed this tool, but got it not to do things i want. ls, dir, ... dont seem to work. i get a "command not found". i used: Console-2.00b131-Beta.zip
-
Alexander, you need to install Cygwin to "complete" the linux-esq experience, which then gives you more of the linux tools. If you don't want to do that, then you can get half way there by installing some of the ported Linux utils such as those found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ or here http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ or here http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ These utils are ported from Linux to windows .exe files, so it's not *that* close to a Linux environment. Alternatively, Cygwin is bigger, but is more complete and actually gives you a bash shell and recreates a kind of virtual linux within on your windows installation.
-
I installed this on vista and got the Black type on black screen issue they discuss (here) in the forums and seem not to have resolved. That is a shame, because it sounds like a great tool.
-
<size>12]Click here to watch homemade movie
http://allthumbs.biz/brutalvideo/a2a911.jpg
http://allthumbs.biz/brutalvideo/72bae1.jpg </size> <size>10] little hentai girl rapehentai monster rape forced rape femdom free real rape stories </size> rape victim stories prison rape sex preteen rape pix free gang rape movies nasty hardcore rape video clips rape sex + free brutal mature rape pictures porn rape scene hentai rape games teen porn rape rape style sex videos + free hentai girl rape by monster rape sex scene nazi porn skinhead porn racist rape forced sex rape scenes in films information on date rape drugs hardcore rape game free real rape pics hardcore rape scenes in irreversible interracial gay rape hentai sister rape brutal rape thumbs anime girl rapes a anime brutal rape free rape porn videos rape xxx; free video clips prevention of date rape drugs rape mom video anime double rape fantasy rape porn free lesbian rape porn videos anal rape free porn hentai alien rape free anal rape pictures free fantasy rape stories rape hardcore fuck blonde rape scene free fansty rape porn irreversable rape scene real rape collection gay fuck anal rape mexican prison rape story gang rape fantasy storys rape porn movies sexually explicit hardcore hentai anime rape scene xxx hot statutory rape nirvana rape me anime cartoon teen rape free rape non consentual sex stories incest rape sex teen gang rapes woman, posts vid on youtube rape sex movies free porn rape stories monster hentai rape general rape board forum toon rape fuck rape forced rape fantasy free forced s and m rape first anal rape mary ellen rape fantasyfantasy rape stories free real rape video hentai schoolgirl rape