Xiki Alternatives

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 Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Xiki for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Windows and Cygwin. The best 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.

Xiki alternatives are mainly Shells but may also be Terminal Emulators. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Xiki.

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Xiki

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fish
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23 alternatives to fish
Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
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fish Features
1. Autocompletionfish can predict and complete the rest of a word or phrase you're typing.
2. Command line interfacefish either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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GNU Bourne Again SHell
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Terminal Emulator
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23 alternatives to GNU Bourne Again SHell
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.
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GNU Bourne Again SHell Features
1. Command line interfaceGNU Bourne Again SHell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
User friendly
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Zsh
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Free • Open Source
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Terminal Emulator
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20 alternatives to Zsh
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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Zsh Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsZsh can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
2. Command line interfaceZsh either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of Zsh.
Customizable
Warp Terminal
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Terminal Emulator
Mac
9 alternatives to Warp Terminal
Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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Warp Terminal Features
1. AutocompletionWarp Terminal can predict and complete the rest of a word or phrase you're typing.
2. LightweightWarp Terminal consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Real time collaborationMultiple users can work together in Warp Terminal simultaneously.
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Nu Shell
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21 alternatives to Nu Shell
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.
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DASH Shell
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Free • Open Source
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Terminal Emulator
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20 alternatives to DASH Shell
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.
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1. Command line interfaceDASH Shell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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win-bash
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Terminal Emulator
Windows
34 alternatives to win-bash
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.
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win-bash Features
1. Command line interfacewin-bash either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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Elvish
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Free • Open Source
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21 alternatives to Elvish
Elvish is a friendly and expressive shell for UN*X systems including Linux, macOS and BSDs.
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Elvish Features
1. Command line interfaceElvish either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
KornShell
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20 alternatives to KornShell
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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1. Command line interfaceKornShell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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rc - a shell
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Linux
20 alternatives to rc - a shell
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.
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rc - a shell Features
1. Command line interfacerc - a shell either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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