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Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherShell / Terminal program for Windows
Windows users: if you use a shell or terminal program (for example with Git), which one do you use?
I've heard good things about Powershell, Cygwin and Console2.
Any recommendations?
4 Answers
mikekosulin
2,138 Points
Jay Mayu
6,805 Pointsfor ssh I'll use putty.
Else I'll stick with the git bash window.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWhen I was doing corporate training, most of my students were on Windows and most used PowerShell. It seems to work pretty well but has some weirdness with executable out-of-the-box, if I remember correctly.
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherHello Dave,
When setting up a Windows environment I take these two steps before going any further (after installing Chrome, I should note).
1) Install Chocolatey NuGet
2) Launch cmd and run cinst console2
My goal with Console2 was to mimic the Terminal on Mac as closely as I could, and I got pretty close.
You can read a great deal about setting up Console2 from Scott Hanselman on his blog.
I hope this helps
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherThanks Justin,
It seems like development on Console2 has stopped (last update in 2011?). I still see fairly recent blog posts about it however. There also appears to be a fork of Console2 that is being maintained called Console Z
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou're welcome and absolutely right. Console2 development appears to be non-existent.
As a rare user of Windows, and considering Console2 is as good as it is without constant development, this hasn't been a problem for me.
Thanks for sharing info on Console Z! Glad to see interest is still there.
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherDave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherHi Mike,
Thanks for the answer. I'm a Mac guy, but want to get a Windows machine too. Haven't looked at the Git Windows installation, but I understand it has some kind of terminal app for issuing Git commands. Does it have basic command line tools like
cdto change directories and move around the file system?mikekosulin
2,138 Pointsmikekosulin
2,138 PointsYes, It has all basic commands.