win-bash Alternatives

win-bash is described as 'Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage)' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to win-bash for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best win-bash alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like win-bash are fish, GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh and MinGW.

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  1. CMD++ icon
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    CMD++ is a command line program, which was devoloped as alternative to the Windows (R) console. You can use it at public places (eg. at school) when the native console is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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...

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. 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

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    Platforms

    • Symbian S60
     
  4. Elvish icon
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    Elvish is a friendly and expressive shell for UN*X systems including Linux, macOS and BSDs.

    28 Elvish alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 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 (MIT)

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    • Linux
     
  6. Oil icon
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    Oil is a new Unix shell.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. Closh icon
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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. OverOS icon
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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Hamilton C shell™ is a complete Unix shell environment for Windows, including all the important utilities, mv, cp, rm, more, grep, fgrep, head, tail, diff, sed, cron, tar and so on. There’s even a real chown, a real su (super user) and a sudo alias to run a command elevated.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11.  Like
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    A statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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