{"id":14125,"date":"2010-04-12T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2010\/04\/12\/enhance-and-customize-windows-command-line\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T23:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:12:52","slug":"enhance-and-customize-windows-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2010\/04\/12\/enhance-and-customize-windows-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance and customize Windows command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lions-wing.net\/lessons\/customize\/prompt.gif\" title=\"prompt\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"234\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cmd<\/strong> it&#8217;s the command to open the command line window in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Is possible to enhance it about GUI and features and render it a powerful console. You just need 2 free programs: <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/console\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Console<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cygwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first has various interesting features liks multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The second allows to use many Unix\/Linux features on Windows, with many advantages: a powerful shell, you can run many server applications, and, not last, the GCC compiler that allows to compile and execute many programs written for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>You can make them work together in easy way:<br \/>\n1. Install Cygwin<br \/>\n2. Download, extract and start Console<br \/>\n3. Go to Edit -> Settings<br \/>\n4. Under the &#8220;Console&#8221; settings, point the Shell to Cygwin.bat (eg. C:cygwinCygwin.bat), then press OK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>How to enhance and customize Windows command line with two programs Console and Cygwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/category\/software\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 17 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 12, 2010","modified":"Updated on April 12, 2010"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 12, 2010 11:12 pm","modified":"Updated on April 12, 2010 11:12 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}