List of command-line interpreters

Operating system shells

AmigaOS

• Amiga CLI/Amiga Shell

  Unix-like systems

• Bourne shell sh
• * Almquist shell
• ** Debian Almquist shell
• * Bash bash
• * Korn shell ksh
• ** Z shell zsh
• C shell csh
• * TENEX C shell tcsh
• Ch shell ch
• Emacs shell eshell
• Friendly interactive shell fish
• Perl Shell psh
• 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

• cmd.exe, the default command-line interpreter of the Windows NT-family
• COMMAND.COM, default in Windows 9x and provided for DOS compatibility in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM
• 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/Linux compatibility layer and POSIX subsystem

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

  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

• AS/400 Control Language
• iSeries 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

  Minicomputer CLIs

• Data General's CLI on RDOS and AOS Operating Systems and their variants
• Digital Equipment Corporation's DIGITAL Command Language

  Other

• BASIC-PLUS
• CANDE MCS – command-line shell and text editor on the MCP operating system
• Conversational Monitor System
• Console Command Processor for CP/M
• DOS Wedge
• DIGITAL Command Language
• Extensible Firmware Interface shell
• Microsoft BASIC
• Singularity
• SymShell, see SymbOS
• Time Sharing Option
• 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 Sharp, F#
• J
• GMLCMD
• Haskell
• 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
• 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
• REXX
• Ruby
• * Interactive Ruby Shell
• Tcl
• * Tclsh
• * Wish
• 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