Comparing Take Command and TCC/LE - CMD Replacement Shells

The default Windows command shell CMD has always been extremely limited in ability compared to the shells available in other operating systems such as Linux (which has bash, csh, posh, tcsh, zsh, etc.). And Windows CMD commands haven't changed significantly since their first appearance in Windows NT 3.1 (released in 1993). Because of these limitations, users have been forced to use the GUI for inappropriate tasks, or to write programs to perform simple tasks that CMD should have been able to handle (either from the command prompt or in batch files).

Take Command is our flagship product. For more than 28 years, JP Software has been helping advanced users, developers, system administrators, and technical support professionals save time and money, and ease their command prompt frustrations. Take Command offers a new approach to working in Windows, bringing users the power of the command line and the ease of use of the GUI. Take Command lets you display your Windows console (and simple GUI) applications in tabbed windows, with an optional Windows Explorer interface available for those times when you need a visual look at your folders and files.

Take Command is a complete CMD replacement that provides you with a vastly better command line UI and thousands of features that are not available in CMD (or even in those vaunted Linux shells). And because Take Command is a superset of the CMD commands and syntax, you'll be immediately more productive. Take Command includes hundreds of major enhancements to CMD commands such as COPY, DEL, DIR, and START, 215 new internal commands, improved command line editing (including a variety of cut and paste options), advanced tab filename completion, and thousands of other new features. If you don't write batch files or need the full feature set, we also offer TCC/LE, a free but unsupported console-mode only limited version of our TCC command processor. TCC/LE is compatible with (and a superset of) CMD.

This table gives a brief overview of the features in the Windows 10 CMD, TCC/LE, and Take Command. There are far more features and commands in Take Command and TCC/LE than we can show here. See our Online Help for complete details.

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Compare Take Command with other tabbed windows applications.

Commands, functions, and variables included in TCC and TCC/LE.

 

Comparing Take Command, TCC/LE, and CMD

$99.95 ($49.95 upgrade)
Developers, Ops, Support, Power Users
Tabbed Windows for Command Prompt Apps
Integrated Windows file explorer
Batch file editor and debugger
Programmable tabbed toolbar
FTP and HTTP (including SSH and SSL)
250 Internal commands
320 Internal variables
400 Variable functions
Extended CMD commands (COPY, DIR, etc.)
Optional command dialogs (COPY, DEL, etc.)
DO loops
IF / THEN / ELSE and SWITCH statements
Command line syntax coloring
Enhanced command line editor
Multiple selection / cut / paste options
Enhanced file and directory name completion
Extended wildcards and regular expressions
Record & playback macros
Send keystrokes to any window
Monitor hardware and software events
Network messaging and remote computing
File filtering, conversion, and sorting
TCC/LE
Free
Home Users
no
no
no
no
no
111 Internal commands
103 Internal variables
140 Variable functions
some
no
yes
yes
no
some
some
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
CMD
Free (with Windows)
Beginners
no
no
no
no
no
34 Internal commands
6 Internal variables
0
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no
no

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