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We've compiled a list of 54 free and paid alternatives to PowerShell. The primary competitors include PuTTY, ConEmu. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between PowerShell and Cygwin, cmder, KiTTY. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


PuTTY
Free Open Source

Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

ConEmu
Free Open Source

Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as...

Cygwin
Free Open Source

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

cmder
Free Open Source

Portable terminal app that bundles ConEmu and Clink with great looking defaults.

KiTTY
Free Open Source

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington...

MinGW
Free Open Source

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and...

Yakuake
Free Open Source

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

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.

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PowerShell Overview

Windows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language from Microsoft. Windows PowerShell integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework and provides an environment for execution of cmdlets, which are specialized .NET classes implementing a particular operation, scripts, which are composition of cmdlets along with imperative logic, executables, which are standalone applications, or by instantiating regular .NET classes. These work by accessing data in different data stores, like the filesystem or registry.

PowerShell Features

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