Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Rust
- Linux Mobile
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Zsh AlternativesShells & Terminal Emulators like Zsh
Apps similar to Zsh include fish, which is free and open source. Other options are GNU Bourne Again SHell, Nushell, brush and Elk Shell. Shells like Zsh are a crowded field, 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.
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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
Elk is an experimental shell language that aims to seamlessly combine the syntax of a shell language like bash with the syntax of a general-purpose language like Python. Bash is great for executing programs and handling files, but can be quite limiting and tedious to use when it...
Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.4+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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...
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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
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