Its a thing of common knowledge that Linux has many powerful commands that put Windows command prompt to shame. Although Microsoft has come up with Powershell for Windows, but its still not in competition with Linux commands. If you want to make use of the powerful Linux commands in Windows, then you can use GoW (Gnu on Windows). It is a pack of hundreds of Linux commands that run inside Windows in the same manner as on a Linux machine.
You can download Gnu on Windows from its github page. The download is an installer package which installs all the Linux commands on your system. After the installation, you can right-click on any folder and select Command Prompt Here from the context-menu. In the command prompt window that opens up, you can give any of the supported Linux commands.
If you do not know which commands are supported by the GoW, then you can give the command gow –list to view a list of commands that you can use. In general, all the basic commands of Linux are supported. There are commands like ls, cp, mv, rmdir etc. to manage the files and folders. There are commands like mp5sum to calculate the MD5 hash of one or more files. There are also commands like psftp, pscp, putty which can be used to securely connect to FTP servers. You can even run BASH scripts on GoW.
GoW is a free utility for using the Linux commands in Windows. It can be used both by the experienced users who play with Linux commands everyday, as well as the newbies who want to learn basics of Linux commands inside the safe environment of Windows before trying out Linux for the first time.
You can download Gnu on Window (GoW) from http://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/.