Xiki AlternativesTerminal Emulators & Shells like Xiki

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

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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...

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Xiki alternatives page was last updated Nov 14, 2022
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  1. 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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust

    Top fish Features

    1.  Sane defaults
    2.  Autocompletion
    3.  Color coding
    4.  Colored Text
    5.  Syntax Highlighting
    6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    7.  No registration required
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  Interpreter

    fish VS Xiki

     
    • fish is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Xiki.

    • fish is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Xiki.

    • fish is Free and Open SourceXiki is also Free and Open Source
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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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  User friendly

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Geeky
    3.  Interpreter

    GNU Bourne Again SHell VS Xiki

     
  3. 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...

    27 Zsh alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Command line interface

    Zsh VS Xiki

     
  4. Warp Terminal icon
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    Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.

    17 Warp Terminal alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Command palette
    3.  Real time collaboration
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Rust
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Command line interface
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  Support for scripting

    Warp Terminal VS Xiki

     
  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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Portable
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Syntax Highlighting
    7.  Rust

    Nu Shell VS Xiki

     
  6. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    win-bash Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter

    win-bash VS Xiki

     
  7. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    rush Features

    1.  Command line interface

    rush VS Xiki

     
  8. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    DASH Shell Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter

    DASH Shell VS Xiki

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin

    KornShell Features

    1.  Command line interface

    KornShell VS Xiki

     
  10. rc - a shell icon
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    rc - a shell Features

    1.  Command line interface

    rc - a shell VS Xiki

     
  11. sash icon
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    a stand-alone shell with many built-in commands. The built in commands of sash have all libraries linked statically, so unlike most shells, the standard UNIX commands do not rely on external libraries. In case of emergencies, you can boot directly into sash and use it as a...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    sash Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter

    sash VS Xiki

     
  12. Elvish icon
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    Elvish is a friendly and expressive shell for UN*X systems including Linux, macOS and BSDs.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Elvish Features

    1.  Command line interface

    Elvish VS Xiki

     
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