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
- Korn shell ksh
  - Z shell zsh
C shell csh
- TENEX C shell tcsh
Ch shell ch
Emacs shell eshell
friendly interactive shell fish
rc shell rc, a shell for Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Unix
scsh (Scheme Shell)
Stand-alone Shell sash
Remote shell rsh, can also mean Restricted shell on some systems

Microsoft Windows

Note that most OS shells in Microsoft Windows are not command-line interpreters.

Native

CMD.EXE, the default command-line interpreter of the Windows NT-family
Windows PowerShell, a command processor based on .NET Framework
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
Recovery Console

Unix-styled and POSIX emulators

Windows Services for UNIX
- MKS Toolkit
- Interix

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 OS/400

Apple computers

Apple DOS/Apple ProDOS

Mobile devices

DROS, 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)
Console Command Processor (CCP) for CP/M
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)
GMLCMD
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

MATLAB
ROOT

Programming languages

BeanShell – shell for Java
JavaScript shell – several programs by this name allow interactive JavaScript^[3]
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