Help me make my windows cmd.exe console work more like a Linux terminal

Question

The windows terminal (the user-interface around text-applications like cmd.exe) really sucks.

There is so much that the Unix-style terminals do that the windows terminal

Answer 1

I use JTerm desktop console on Windows. It has Java implementations of all major Linux / Unix commands, such us ls, grep, find, cd, cp, mv etc. It has some limitations, but overall it works will.