In computing, a command-line interpreter, or command language interpreter, is a blanket term for a certain class of programs designed to read lines of text entered by a user, thus implementing a command-line interface.
Operating system shells
AmigaOS
- Amiga CLI/Amiga Shell
Unix-like systems
There are many variants of Unix shell:
- Bourne shell
sh- Almquist shell (ash)
- Debian Almquist shell (dash)
- Bash (Unix shell)
bash - KornShell
ksh- Z shell
zsh
- Z shell
- Almquist shell (ash)
- C shell
csh- TENEX C shell
tcsh
- TENEX C shell
- Ch shell
ch - Emacs shell
eshell - Friendly interactive shell
fish - PowerShell
pwsh - rc shell
rc, a shell for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Unix - Stand-alone shell
sash - Scheme Shell
scsh
Microsoft Windows
Native
- COMMAND.COM, the original Microsoft command line processor introduced on MS-DOS as well as Windows 9x, in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM
- cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM introduced on OS/2 and Windows NT systems, although COMMAND.COM is still available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions of those operating systems also.
- Recovery Console
- Windows PowerShell, a command processor based on .NET Framework
- PowerShell, a command processor based on .NET
- Hamilton C shell, a clone of the Unix C shell by Hamilton Laboratories
- Take Command Console (4NT), a clone of CMD.EXE with added features by JP Software
- Take Command, a newer incarnation of 4NT
Unix/Linux compatibility layer and POSIX subsystem
CP/M
- Console Command Processor (CCP), the default command line interpreter
- ZCPR for the Z-System
- Microshell
DOS
- COMMAND.COM, the default command-line interpreter
- 4DOS, a compatible, but more advanced shell by JP Software
- NDOS, provided with some versions of the Norton Utilities
- GW-BASIC
OS/2
- CMD.EXE, the default command-line interpreter
- Hamilton C shell, a clone of the Unix C shell by Hamilton Laboratories
- 4OS2, a clone of CMD.EXE with additional features by JP Software
IBM i
Apple computers
Mobile devices
- DROS, Java ME platform based DOS-like shell for smartphones
Network routers
Minicomputer CLIs
- Data General's CLI (Command Line Interpreter) on RDOS and AOS Operating Systems and their variants
- Digital Equipment Corporation's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL)
Other
- BASIC-PLUS (RSTS/E)
- CANDE MCS – command-line shell and text editor on the MCP operating system
- Conversational Monitor System (VM/CMS)
- DOS Wedge (an extension to the Commodore 64's BASIC 2.0)
- DIGITAL Command Language (OpenVMS)
- Extensible Firmware Interface shell
- Microsoft BASIC (qualifies both for a programming language and OS)
- Singularity (operating system)
- SymShell, see SymbOS
- Time Sharing Option (MVS, z/OS)
- Atari TOS shell
- YouOS shell
- EFI-SHELL – an open source Extensible Firmware Interface command shell
Programming
Language systems
- APL
- BASIC – actually, many dialects and varieties of a programming language may have commands like kill, system, files, and others which allow operating system access from the interactive and often from programme mode
- BeanShell, a shell for Java
- F#
- J
- Haskell
- Lisp
- Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, an old command-line environment used to develop software on Classic Mac OS
- Prolog
- Scala
- Smalltalk
- Standard ML
Debuggers
- 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
Scientific and engineering software
Programming languages
Database queries
- sqsh, a shell available with some SQL implementations for database queries and other tasks.
- Google Shell, a browser-based front-end for Google Search
See also
References
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