List of command-line interpreters
This list includes notable command-line interpreter (CLI) – programs that interactively interpret programming languages and provide a command-line interface (cli) into which a user can enter commands.
Operating system shells
Most operating systems are accessible via a shell – a command line interpreter. In some cases multiple shells are available.
This category somewhat overlaps with the general programming section since an operating system shell supports programming, and the line between operating system access and general programming is sometimes less than clear. For example, some versions of BASIC served as a shell, and BASIC is also a general-purpose language.
Unix-like
- Almquist shell (ash)
- Bash (Unix shell)
bash - Bourne shell
sh - C shell
csh - Ch shell
ch - Debian Almquist shell (dash)
- Emacs shell
eshell - Friendly interactive shell
fish - KornShell
ksh - PowerShell
pwsh - rc shell
rc, a shell for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Unix - Stand-alone shell
sash - Scheme Shell
scsh - TENEX C shell
tcsh - Z shell
zsh
Windows
- COMMAND.COM, the default shell in Windows 9x and an option in 32-bit NT-based Windows via NTVDM
- cmd.exe, a successor of COMMAND.COM in OS/2 and Windows NT systems, a.k.a. Command Prompt
- Recovery Console
- PowerShell, a .NET-based successor of Command Prompt that is more like Unix-based shells
- Hamilton C shell, a clone of the C shell
- Take Command Console (4NT), a clone of cmd.exe with added features
DOS
- COMMAND.COM, the default command-line interpreter
- 4DOS, a compatible, but more advanced shell
- NDOS, provided with some versions of Norton Utilities
- GW-BASIC
OS/2
- CMD.EXE, the default command-line interpreter
- Hamilton C shell, a clone of the Unix C shell
- 4OS2, a clone of CMD.EXE with additional features
Apple
CP/M
- Console Command Processor (CCP), the default command line interpreter
- ZCPR for the Z-System
IBM i
Network routers
Other
- Atari TOS shell
- BASIC-PLUS (RSTS/E)
- CANDE MCS – command-line shell and text editor on the MCP operating system
- Conversational Monitor System (VM/CMS)
- Data General RDOS and AOS CLI
- DIGITAL Command Language (OpenVMS, various PDP-11 O/Ses...)
- DOS Wedge – (Commodore 64)
- EFI-SHELL
- Microsoft BASIC
- Singularity (operating system)
- SymShell
- Tandem Application Control Language (TACL)
- Time Sharing Option (MVS, z/OS)
- YouOS shell
General-purpose programming
- APL
- BASIC
- BeanShell – shell for Java
- JavaScript shell – several programs by this name, including JavaScript Interpreter Shell, allow interactive JavaScript[3]
- Common Lisp Interface Manager – for Lisp
- F#
- Haskell
- Interactive Ruby Shell – for Ruby
- IPython – for Python
- J
- Julia
- Jython
- Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, for Classic Mac OS
- Perl
- PHPsh – shell for PHP
- Prolog
- REBOL
- Red
- REXX
- Scala
- Smalltalk
- Standard ML
- Tclsh – for Tcl
- tkcon shell and IDE for Tcl/Tk
- Windows Script Host
- Wish (Windowing Shell) – for Tcl
Software debugging
- DEBUG
- gdb
- DDT, a PDP-10 debugger from DEC used as a command shell for the MIT Incompatible Timesharing System
- Firebug/Chromebug, a JavaScript shell and debugging environment as a Firefox plugin
Database development
- sqsh, a shell available with some SQL implementations for database queries and other tasks.
- Google Shell, a browser-based front-end for Google Search