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The best Terminal Emulator alternative to fish is GNU Bourne Again SHell, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to fish and ten of them are Terminal Emulators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Terminal Emulator alternatives to fish are Zsh, Nu Shell, Xiki and DASH Shell.

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  1. 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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  2. Zsh icon
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    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...

    27 Zsh alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  3. Nu Shell icon
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    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.

    28 Nu Shell alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    It uses structured data and has a nice default UI.

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    Its an amazing cross-platform alternative shell.

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    • Nu Shell is Free and Open Sourcefish is also Free and Open Source
    • Nu Shell is Lightweightfish is not according to our users
  4. Xiki icon
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    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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. DASH Shell icon
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    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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    • Linux
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  6.  Like

    Execute shell commands on Android or the JVM.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. fshell icon
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    fshell is the Symbian equivalent of bash + telnet + a posix-like set of command-line tools. In other words it's a console framework for Symbian OS with support for remote connections and a suite of tools for debugging the device.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Symbian S60
     
  8. sash icon
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    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 not rely on external libraries. In case of emergencies, you can boot directly into sash and use it as a...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. win-bash icon
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    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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  10. RazzShell icon
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    RazzShell is a Unix shell built with customization in mind, offering command alias support, colorful output, and environment variable handling. Developed in C, it’s designed for Unix/Linux systems and licensed under the MIT license.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Kali Linux
     
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