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Command-Line Translator

Search for a task ("list files", "copy", "grep") or a command name and see the closest equivalent across Bash/Linux, PowerShell, and Windows CMD side by side — with the real differences called out, not glossed over. A lot of these are "closest equivalent," not "identical command": PowerShell pipes objects instead of text, CMD's del can't remove directories, chmod/chown have no true Windows equivalent because NTFS uses a completely different permission model. Nothing here executes anything — this is a reference, not a shell. Runs entirely in your browser.

A note on scope

This covers the commands people actually reach for constantly during day-to-day admin, troubleshooting, and scripting work across the three platforms — not an exhaustive list of every CLI tool on either OS. Where there's genuinely no equivalent (Windows has nothing like chmod's permission bits), that's stated plainly instead of pointing at something superficially similar that behaves differently.