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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  1. LibTerm icon

    LibTerm

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    LibTerm is a command line interface for iPhone and iPad. Includes what you need for coding C programs!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • LibTerm is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to fish.

    • LibTerm is Free and Open Sourcefish is also Free and Open Source
  2. win-bash icon

    win-bash

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Closh icon

    Closh

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. rush icon

    rush

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    rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. RazzShell icon

    RazzShell

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Kali Linux
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  7. OverOS icon

    OverOS

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    Simple shell/TUI written completely in c++ containing a basic "kernel", command support, and the ability to run a KAutoRun application upon boot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Screenshot from Version 0.1 (Release 5)
     
  9. eltclsh icon

    eltclsh

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    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 command completion thanks to editline features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    With TclVFS enabled eltclsh can Tab-complete FTP paths.
     
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