Elvish Alternatives

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...

Features:

• Geeky
• User friendly
• Command line
• Command line interface
• Developer Tools
• Interpreter
• Terminal emulator

PowerShell

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line...

Features:

• Optimized for Windows
• PowerShell Scripting
• Scripting

Zsh

Zsh is a shell (e.g. bash replacement) designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. .

Features:

• Customizable
• Command line
• Command line interface
• Terminal emulator

fish

Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and...

Features:

• Autocompletion
• Color coding
• Colored Text
• Command line
• Interpreter
• Sane defaults
• Terminal emulator

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...

Features:

• Command line interface
• Interpreter
• Terminal emulator

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...

dash

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...

Features:

• Command line
• Command line interface
• Interpreter
• Terminal emulator

Xiki

Xiki 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...

Features:

• Command line
• Command line interface
• Developer Tools
• Interpreter
• Terminal emulator

the xonsh shell

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.

Features:

• Command line
• Portable
• Python
• Scriptable

Ergonomica

Ergonomica is a cross-platform shell language, implemented in Python. Ergonomica aims to modernize the terminal, in an easily-extensible and usable language, independent...