windows CLI looking like ubuntu terminal

Question

How can I make my windows 7 command line interface to look like the terminal in Ubuntu ?

Solution

The closest you will get is using the free Console application off SourceForge. Here's a recent Scott Hanselman blog post about customising it. If you grab the free Ubuntu fonts and use the monospaced one for the console, it'll look even more like the Ubuntu shell.

This software works by redirecting output from CMD.EXE, so you won't have colour in the sense that an Ubuntu shell could. To attack that problem, you could use the free CMD.EXE alternative TCC LE and make Console run that instead of CMD.EXE.

Doing all that might get you something similar in terms of looks.

Comments

[Keltari]

what specifically are you looking for?

[Gnoupi]

What do you mean exactly by "looking like", is it only a matter of appearance, or do you want the same functions?

[AlexandruC]

I am looking for appearance.

[Keith]

I don't think it's possible. The win32 console does not support ANSI escape sequences to color prompts, etc.

[AlexandruC]

Thansk but I have that, I just want it to look like the terminal, like fonts and color & stuff.

[Alan B]

He doesn't want Linux commands, he wants Linux appearance.

[Ankit]

@AlanB Thanks for pointing. I missed the point completely.

[Alan B]

Since the answer above, a new solution to this has arrived in the form of the excellent CmdEr (bliker.github.io/cmder)