Murex AlternativesShells and other similar apps like Murex

Murex is described as 'Shell, like bash / zsh / fish / etc however Murex supports an enhanced UX and support for additional type information in pipelines, which can be used for complex data formats like JSON or tables' and is a Shell in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Murex for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Cygwin apps. The best Murex alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Murex are fish, GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh and Nu Shell.

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  1. PowerShell icon
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    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.

    68 PowerShell alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
    • PowerShell is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Murex.

    • PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Murex.

    • PowerShell is Free and Open SourceMurex is also Free and Open Source
    • PowerShell is LightweightMurex is not according to our users
  2. fish icon
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    Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux

    31 fish alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
     
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    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.

    29 GNU Bourne Again SHell alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  5. 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
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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  6. Elk Shell icon
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    Elk is an experimental shell language that aims to seamlessly combine the syntax of a shell language like bash with the syntax of a general-purpose language like Python. Bash is great for executing programs and handling files, but can be quite limiting and tedious to use when it...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    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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    • Free
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    • Mac
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  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  9. KornShell icon
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    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 system and to many other systems, on the many different computers and workstations on which it is implemented.

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    • Free
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    • Linux
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  10. rush icon
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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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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