So, if you are on version 2004, for instance, you are fine.įor an easy-to-get, auto-updating version, install from the Microsoft StoreĬommand line package managers on Windows? Yes, please. Windows Terminal requires at least Wind(build 18362). Run winver (in Powershell, CMD, or after ⊞-r). Any of the following will work well, but I have listed them in my order of preference.įirst, though, make sure your Windows 10 version is recent enough. There are many ways to install Windows Terminal. See the settings docs for details on what you can configure (yes, font face is one of them hello, Fira Code! Hello, Nerd Fonts!) Ctrl-, will open the settings file in your default text editor. Choose your "profile": you can have Powershell in one tab, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in another, CMD in another, an alternate WSL distro in another. For years enthusiasts were limited to the confines of the Windows command line but in 2006, PowerShell emerged as a powerful alternative.Multiple tabs: Ctrl-Shift-t will open a new tab.There are many welcome features in the Windows Terminal. Multiple Tabs, Multiple Shells, User Configuration Made by Microsoft, and released under the open source MIT license. Thankfully, we can do so much better than the Powershell window.Įnter the relatively new Windows Terminal. Open the Start Menu, type "Replace Command Prompt," and you should see the above setting. Otherwise, as of today and Windows Terminal 1.15 currently is not possible to replace the Command Prompt with Windows Terminal. ps1/.bat script, they will be shown using their. But if I run Powershell.exe or CMD.exe directly or open a. The Powershell window is much better, but still not comparable to the various terminal window options on Linux and Mac.īe that as it may, you probably want to make it easier to access Powershell rather than CMD with the ⊞-x keyboard shortcut, so: If I open the new Windows Terminal, I can then open tabs for CMD, Powershell, Wsl, etc. Once upon a time, the Windows command line was CMD, and it was horrible.
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