rc - a shell Alternatives

rc - a shell is described as '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' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to rc - a shell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Windows and Cygwin apps. The best rc - a shell alternative is fish, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rc - a shell are GNU Bourne Again SHell, Perl, Zsh and Nu Shell.

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  1. Murex icon

    Murex

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    Murex is a 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    JSON wrangling
     

  2. KtSh

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    Execute shell commands on Android or the JVM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     

    • KtSh is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to rc - a shell.

    • KtSh is Free and Open Sourcerc - a shell is also Free and Open Source
  4. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. es

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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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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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