Oil Alternatives

Oil is described as 'New Unix shell' and is a Shell. There are more than 25 alternatives to Oil for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Cygwin apps. The best Oil alternative is fish, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Oil are GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh, Nu Shell and IPython.

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  1. 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 (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Kali Linux
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  2. 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!

    26 LibTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

    • LibTerm is Free and Open SourceOil is also Free and Open Source

  4. arsh

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    A statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  5. nsh icon

    nsh

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. 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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