# List of command-line interpreters

This list of command-line interpreters covers 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)
* TACL (Tandem Application Control Language)

### 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