List of command-line interpreters

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
C shell csh
- TENEX C shell tcsh
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 as well.
Recovery Console
Windows PowerShell, a command processor based on .NET Framework
- PowerShell, a command processor based on .NET Core
Hamilton C shell, a clone of the Unix C shell by Hamilton Laboratories
4NT, a clone of CMD.EXE with additional 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[]

, Java ME platform based DOS-like shell for smartphones

Network routers[]

Cisco IOS^[1]
Junos Command Line Interface (Juniper Networks)^[2]

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 (programming language)
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 Sharp (programming language), F#
J (programming language)
Haskell (programming language)
Lisp
- Common Lisp Interface Manager
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, an old command-line environment used for software development on the classic Mac OS
Prolog
Smalltalk
Scala (programming language)
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[]

BeanShell – shell for Java
– several programs by this name allow interactive JavaScript^[3]
- Javascript Interpreter Shell
Julia
Jython
Perl
PHPsh – shell for PHP
Python
- IPython
REXX
Ruby
- Interactive Ruby Shell
Tcl
- Tclsh
- Wish (Windowing Shell)
tkcon shell and IDE for Tcl/Tk
Windows Script Host

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

References[]

^ "The Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI) is the primary user interface..."
^ "...the software that you use whenever you access the router..."
^ developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_shells; Comparison of Server-side JavaScript solutions

[1] "The Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI) is the primary user interface..."

[2] "...the software that you use whenever you access the router..."

[3] veloper.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_shells; Comparison of Server-side JavaScript solutions

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