Closh Alternatives

Closh is described as 'combines the best of traditional unix shells with the power of Clojure. It aims to be a modern alternative to bash' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Closh for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Windows and Cygwin. The best alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Closh are fish, GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh and clink.

Closh alternatives are mainly Shells but may also be Terminal Emulators. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Closh.

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Closh

Free • Open Source
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Closh combines the best of traditional unix shells with the power of Clojure. It aims to be a modern alternative to bash.

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PowerShell
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Terminal Emulator
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59 alternatives to PowerShell
PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
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1. Support for scriptingPowerShell supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsPowerShell can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
PowerShell Scripting
Optimized for Windows
fish
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23 alternatives to fish
Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
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fish Features
1. Autocompletionfish can predict and complete the rest of a word or phrase you're typing.
2. Command line interfacefish either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Sane defaults
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GNU Bourne Again SHell
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Free • Open Source
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Terminal Emulator
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23 alternatives to GNU Bourne Again SHell
Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.
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GNU Bourne Again SHell Features
1. Command line interfaceGNU Bourne Again SHell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
User friendly
Geeky
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Zsh
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20 alternatives to Zsh
Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh); its compatibility with the 1988 Korn shell has been gradually increasing. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for...
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Zsh Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsZsh can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
2. Command line interfaceZsh either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of Zsh.
Customizable
clink
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 alternatives to clink
Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe". If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline' library that Bash uses). It is a small utility.
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clink Features
1. Command line interfaceclink either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
the xonsh shell
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18 alternatives to the xonsh shell
Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.4+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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the xonsh shell Features
1. Support for scriptingthe xonsh shell supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. Portablethe xonsh shell can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Command line interfacethe xonsh shell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Python API
Run from python interpreter
Nu Shell
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21 alternatives to Nu Shell
This project has reached a minimum-viable product level of quality. While contributors dogfood it as their daily driver, it may be unstable for some commands. Future releases will work fill out missing features and improve stability.
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DASH Shell
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Free • Open Source
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20 alternatives to DASH Shell
DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. DASH stands for Debian Almquist Shell.
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DASH Shell Features
1. Command line interfaceDASH Shell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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win-bash
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34 alternatives to win-bash
win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an inte.
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1. Command line interfacewin-bash either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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Xiki
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20 alternatives to Xiki
Xiki makes the command line friendlier and more powerful. Xiki Shell (xsh) lets you use Xiki from command line, in a way that augments your current favorite shell (bash or zsh).
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Xiki Features
1. Command line interfaceXiki either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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