fish Alternatives

fish is described as 'Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux' and is a very popular Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to fish for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Cygwin apps. The best fish alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like fish are GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh, Nu Shell and Elk Shell.

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    Es is an extensible shell. The language was derived from the Plan 9 shell, rc, and was influenced by functional programming languages, such as Scheme, and the Tcl embeddable programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  2. Ergonomica icon
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    Ergonomica is a cross-platform shell language, implemented in Python. Ergonomica aims to modernize the terminal, in an easily-extensible and usable language, independent of the OS on which it runs. It uses existing core utilities such as the os and shutil packages, as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. rc - a shell icon
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    This is a reimplementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell. rc offers much the same capabilities as a traditional Bourne shell, but with a much cleaner syntax.

    27 rc - a shell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  4. Janetsh icon
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    A new system shell that uses the Janet Language for high level scripting while also supporting the things we love about sh. Minimal knowledge of janet is required for basic shell usage, but as you become more familiar with janet, your shell...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • zsh
     
  6. Oil icon
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    Oil is a new Unix shell.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    Execute shell commands on Android or the JVM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
    • KtSh is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to fish.

    • KtSh is Free and Open Sourcefish is also Free and Open Source
  8. Ble.sh icon
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    Bash Line Editor is a a full-featured line editor written in pure Bash! Syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. are available in Bash interactive sessions!.

    5 Ble.sh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  9. nsh icon
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    A command-line shell like fish, complete with tab completion and syntax highlighting, but also POSIX compatibility. Made with Rust, featuring built-in zero configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Symbian S60
     
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    A statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  12. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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