Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux
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- Open Source
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Xiki AlternativesTerminal Emulators & Shells like Xiki
Xiki has been discontinued. Similar apps include fish, which is free and open source. Other options are GNU Bourne Again SHell, Warp Terminal, Zsh and Nushell. There's no shortage of Shells like Xiki, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, iPad and self-hosting.
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- 32 fish alternatives
31 GNU Bourne Again SHell alternativesBash 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.
84 Warp Terminal alternativesWarp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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- Freemium
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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- Mac
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- Linux
- Homebrew
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28 Zsh alternativesZsh 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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- Mac
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29 Nushell alternativesThis 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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POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust, offering full bash compatibility, real-time syntax highlighting, history-based auto-suggestions, programmable completion, rich prompts, job control, support for arrays and variables, and VS Code integration.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Linux
- Rust
- Nix Package Manager
- Homebrew
- United States
An AI-native terminal for developers. Manage servers, automate commands, and run agentic tasks — all in one beautifully designed, cross-platform workspace.
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Estonia
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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- Linux
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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- Windows
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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
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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- Open Source
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- Linux
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