clink
Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe (by chrisant996)
winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface). (by microsoft)
| clink | winget-cli | |
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| 11 | 283 | |
| 3,023 | 22,187 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 9.8 | 9.3 | |
| 3 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
clink
Posts with mentions or reviews of clink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
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Are We Sixel Yet
It would allow portable graphics applications on the terminal, e.g. this C64-emulator-in-Docker only renders ASCII characters, but could be extended with sixels to render graphics (I actually tinkered with this, but didn't get far because most terminals have either none or too slow sixels support):
https://github.com/chrisant996/clink/releases
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Blog - How to install and set up Neovim on Windows
If you don't want to learn the powershell commands then clink can enhance the existing cmd shell. It provides a lot of features i was used from bash/zsh: completion, history across sessions, colors, fzf integration and so on. Can be extended with lua.
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In preparing to teach Perl, I discovered one of the main reasons for Perl's loss of popularity. - opinion
Windows Terminal is great and an enormous improvement over conhost. That said, cmd itself isn't any better unless you extend it with something like Oh My Posh and clink. Add GNU CoreUtils to your path if (like me) your muscle memory is to use ls and rm over dir and del.
- The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
- Thread Diario de Dudas, Consultas y Mitaps - 02/12
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Entré en un laburo nuevo y cuando les pregunté si la máquina era Linux o Mac me dijeron Windows. Qué onda?
- windows terminal https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701 - al cmd lo mejoro con clink https://github.com/chrisant996/clink
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7 great Terminal/CLI tools not everyone knows
Clink (https://github.com/chrisant996/clink) combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions.
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I could name a few more reasons why I hate PowerShell and still use it.
clink injected into cmd.exe + msys for the utilities, all hosted in OpenConsole
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How to add oh-my-posh to Windows Terminal as a Profile
Download the zip file for portable clink from the clink site We will only use clink in the custom Windows Terminal profile by manually extracting the portable clink to the Program Files folder. If you want to install clink to the normal CMD also, you can use the installer and omit the following steps until step 3.0
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Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe
It has been around for some time however I just found it. It is called Clink . Anyone interested in a video tutorial
winget-cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of winget-cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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Fresh W11 Install - Winget acting weird
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3832
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MS and Windows gets a lot of (well deserved) hate, but winget is just fantastic!
You're correct here, and that's exactly the reason Winget is a package manager, as dependency management is part of teh stable release since version 1.6.3133:
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Microsoft Intune Management Extensions update?
Currently, I'm troubleshooting an annoying issue on my shared devices that it's a hell to delete. See this ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3365
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
It's also on the official microsoft package manager (winget).
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
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How to update cURL
Winget install
- Script to update apps automaticaly with Winget
- Mass-archiving Reddit comment threads from a list of URLs
- 2 weird issue today
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release
What are some alternatives?
When comparing clink and winget-cli you can also consider the following projects:
oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
asusctl
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
jq - Command-line JSON processor
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client