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 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

• Interix
• MKS Toolkit
• Microsoft POSIX subsystem
• Windows Services for UNIX
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

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

• Control Language
• Qshell

Apple computers

• Apple DOS/Apple ProDOS
• Macintosh Programmer's Workshop

Mobile devices

• DROS, Java ME platform based DOS-like shell for smartphones

Network routers

• Cisco IOS
• Junos Command Line Interface (Juniper Networks)

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
  • Common Lisp Interface Manager
• 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

• MATLAB
• Wolfram Mathematica
• ROOT

Programming languages

• BeanShell – shell for Java
• JavaScript shell – several programs by this name allow interactive JavaScript
  • Javascript Interpreter Shell
• Julia
• Jython
• Perl
• PHPsh – shell for PHP
• Python
  • IPython
• REBOL
• Red
• 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

See also

• read–eval–print loop
• Interpreter directive
• Job Control Language
• Scripting language
• Comparison of command shells
• List of compilers

References

1. Command-line interface
2. List of compilers
3. Cd (command)
4. Command-line completion
5. COMMAND.COM
6. History (command)
7. Cmd.exe
8. CLI
9. Shell
10. Alias (command)
11. List of DOS commands
12. Vol (command)
13. Del (command)
14. Tee (command)
15. Take Command Console
16. CLS (command)
17. Shebang (Unix)
18. Interpreter (computing)
19. TIME (command)
20. Dir (command)