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  • 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...

    • 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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  • dash

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    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Xiki

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    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • KornShell

    The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive command language that provides access to the UNIX...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Cygwin

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  • Ergonomica

    Ergonomica is a cross-platform shell language, implemented in Python. Ergonomica aims to modernize the terminal, in an easily-extensible and usable language, independent...

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  • sash

    a stand-alone shell with many built-in commands. The built in commands of sash have all libraries linked statically, so unlike most shells, the standard UNIX commands do...

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • eltclsh

    eltclsh (editline tcl shell) is an interactive shell for the TCL programming language. It provides command line editing, history browsing as well as variables and...

    Free Mac Linux BSD Cygwin

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  • Elvish

    Elvish is a friendly and expressive shell for UN*X systems including Linux, macOS and BSDs. FEATURES Powerful and intuitive pipelines let you carry structured data...

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Comment by Buster_Blue
about fish · May 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The many helpful features make using the command line much easier.

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