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. Most alternatives are Shells and Terminal Emulators. The best alternative is GNU Bourne Again SHell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xiki are fish (Free, Open Source), Zsh (Free, Open Source), DASH Shell (Free, Open Source) and Nu Shell (Free, Open Source).
- 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.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- 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.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- 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.No screenshots yet
- win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
No screenshots yet - 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.No screenshots yet
- 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.
- 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.No screenshots yet
- 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.