people who use a terminal in windows - looking for suggestions

[purbeast0]

i'm looking for a better terminal application. right now i'm using windows powershell, which is pretty good. however it has a few quirks that i don't like. the main one is that you can't use tabs. it also gives me some errors when i have to set variables with periods (.) in them and they have to be wrapped in " ". not a big deal but it's annoying.

anyone know of a terminal application in windows that meets the following 2 requirements.
1. it accepts linux commands (windows powershell does this)
2. it allows for having multiple tabs

that is basically what i'm looking for. i did get this WindowsTabs add on that i've used with powershell, but sometimes it flips out and i have to close all of my terminals and restart it. it's just annoying and i'd rather have a terminal that has it built in.

 

[Crusty]

Have you looked into cygwin?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Dunno about multiple tabs, but I love cygwin.

 

[purbeast0]

Have you looked into cygwin?

im actually installing it right now. i also installed this terminal called conemu that has a look/feel of a linux terminal. so i'll see if these two things work together.

 

[OOBradm]

check out Console2

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

 

[purbeast0]

ok so yeah. i just installed cygwin and added it to my path.

i also installed conemu which is allows for multiple tabs. so now i can have multiple tabs and run linux commands. the multiple tabs basically wrap the normal command prompt.

i actually just tried having conemu open a powershell instance instead of normal command prompt, and that works as well.

so looks like my prob is solved lol thanks though.

 

[dabuddha]

I let cygwin make sweet sweet love to me every night.