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Is there any way to use (basic) bash commands on Command Prompt from Windows 8? I will still use more sophisticated commands in my scripts, but for simple navigation, etc. is it possible to setup Command Prompt to use things like ls, pwd, and cd?

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Yes, just use Powershell. It's built-in since Windows Vista and the successor of the good old cmd.exe.

This command (called Cmdlet in PS)

Get-Alias

will show you which aliases exist for Powershell commands. The typical bash commands are among them.

PS C:\Users\User> pwd

Path
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C:\Users\User


PS C:\Users\User> ls


    Directory: C:\Users\User


Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d----        18.08.2013     10:56            .android
d----        14.06.2013     19:23            .config
d----        11.08.2013     16:57            .freemind
d----        01.04.2013     21:13            .splunk
d----        12.12.2012     08:36            .ssh
d----        17.10.2012     07:22            Cisco Packet Tracer 5.3.3
d----        16.04.2013     18:25            Citrix
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Contacts
d-r--        04.01.2014     14:28            Desktop
d----        25.05.2013     00:35            deviantART
d-r--        04.01.2014     23:55            Documents
d-r--        04.01.2014     18:56            Downloads
d-r--        04.01.2014     15:19            Dropbox
d-r--        04.01.2014     14:30            Favorites
d----        15.10.2012     23:57            GNS3
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Links
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Music
d----        17.09.2012     18:22            pdf-Office
d-r--        04.01.2014     17:12            Pictures
d----        18.04.2012     22:38            Roaming
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Saved Games
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Searches
d----        12.12.2012     18:00            SparkleShare
d-r--        13.10.2013     23:48            Videos
d----        29.05.2013     09:26            vmws
-a---        15.10.2012     20:58        186 .packettracer
-a---        19.09.2012     14:53         81 CTX.DAT
-a---        07.03.2013     20:24        641 dateilink.lnk
-a---        02.01.2014     18:13      27369 history.cer
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I believe what you're looking for is MinGW and MSYS. Take a look at this webpage: http://www.mingw.org/

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A basic UNIX environment that includes not only bash, ls, pwd, cd, but you can get pretty much everything up to and including X nicely packaged up and ready to go using cygwin, which can be freely obtained.

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Just write powershell in your good old cmd command prompt and it will turn into powershell. Most of the commands work there.

You can switch back to command prompt by writing cmd again.

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