Comparison of command shells (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Comparison of command shells" in English language version.

refsWebsite

Global rank English rank

18microsoft.com

153^rd place

151^st place

8github.com

383^rd place

320^th place

7web.archive.org

1^st place

6fishshell.com

low place

4groups.google.com

1,518^th place

1,072^nd place

3die.net

low place

8,569^th place

3sourceforge.io

low place

2sourceforge.net

1,669^th place

1,290^th place

2hamiltonlabs.com

low place

2openbsd.org

low place

6,737^th place

2gnu.org

1,475^th place

1,188^th place

2freebsd.org

5,469^th place

3,758^th place

2worldcat.org

5^th place

1collyer.net

low place

1tuhs.org

low place

1tldp.org

low place

9,792^nd place

1oracle.com

1,514^th place

1,024^th place

1free.fr

321^st place

724^th place

1zsh.org

low place

1debian.org

3,857^th place

2,958^th place

1hp.com

3,975^th place

2,687^th place

1phoronix.com

4,683^rd place

3,096^th place

1lwn.net

4,423^rd place

2,925^th place

1redox-os.org

low place

1uni-bonn.de

6,912^th place

8,465^th place

1technet.com

9,482^nd place

6,202^nd place

1bitsavers.org

4,153^rd place

2,291^st place

1in-ulm.de

low place

1ss64.com

low place

1stackoverflow.com

4,643^rd place

2,973^rd place

1books.google.com

3^rd place

1ubuntu.com

4,803^rd place

3,931^st place

1about.com

216^th place

186^th place

1pwet.fr

low place

about.com

linux.about.com

"Linux / Unix Command: stty". Linux.about.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

bitsavers.org

Concurrent DOS 386 - Multiuser/Multitasking Operating System - User Guide (PDF). Digital Research.

books.google.com

Seebach, Peter (2008-11-21). Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional. Expert's voice in open source. Apress (published 2008). p. 149. ISBN 9781430210436. Retrieved 2014-09-17. Brace expansion is available in ksh93, pdksh, bash, and zsh.

collyer.net

A platform independent version based on the historical UNIX V7 original source code is available from Geoff Collyer

debian.org

bugs.debian.org

"#782228 - busybox sh doesn't support multibyte characters in string handling - Debian Bug report logs". Bugs.debian.org. 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2015-07-02.

die.net

linux.die.net

zsh(1) man page and subpages
zshbuiltins(1) man page
"pv(1): monitor progress of data through pipe - Linux man page". Linux.die.net. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

fishshell.com

"fish: Documentation". Section Tab completion. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
"set_color - set the terminal color — fish-shell 3.1.2 documentation". fishshell.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
"abbr - manage fish abbreviations — fish-shell 3.1.2 documentation". fishshell.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
"Interactive use — fish-shell 3.3.1 documentation". fishshell.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
"fish: Tutorial". fishshell.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
"string - manipulate strings — fish-shell 3.1.2 documentation". fishshell.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23.

free.fr

stchaz.free.fr

The zsh command line editor is fully configurable and can allow mouse support in various ways such as with Stéphane Chazelas's mouse.zsh.

freebsd.org

Ferrell, John, "Chapter 2. Default Shell", FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users, The FreeBSD Documentation Project, retrieved 2015-07-24

docs.freebsd.org

"FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux® Users". FreeBSD Documentation Portal. Retrieved 2024-02-04.

github.com

e.g. via 3rd party such as zsh-autosuggestions
zsh does not feature syntax highlighting, but a 3rd party project exists which offers this capability as an add-on: zsh-syntax-highlighting
Shirk, Jason (2018-02-15). "PSReadLine: A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell" – via GitHub.
"Get-ChildItemColor". GitHub. 2022-03-18.
"GitHub - marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete: 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
"zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting: Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh". GitHub. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
Introduce 'function' built-in by Matheus Garcia
"find a way to make 'psub --fifo' safe from deadlock · Issue #1040 · fish-shell/fish-shell". GitHub.

gnu.org

"bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell". read -s Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters are not echoed.
"Bash Reference Manual: The Restricted Shell". Gnu.org. 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

groups.google.com

Fox, Brian (1989-06-07). Tower Jr., Leonard H. (ed.). "Bash is in beta release!". Newsgroup: gnu.announce. Usenet: 8906080235.AA01983@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
Greer, Ken (1983-10-03). "C shell with command and filename recognition/completion". Newsgroup: net.sources. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
Gomes, Ron (1983-06-09). "Toronto USENIX Conference Schedule (tentative)". Newsgroup: net.usenix. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
Harris, Guy (1983-10-10). "csh question". Newsgroup: net.flame. Retrieved 2010-12-29.

hamiltonlabs.com

Sussman, Ann (1988-12-26). "Hamilton C Shell Speeds Development Of OS/2 Applications" (PDF). PC Week (1988-12-26 - 1989-01-02): 37. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
Hamilton C shell Language reference: Wildcarding and pattern matching, Hamilton Laboratories, retrieved 2013-10-29, ... Indefinite Directory: match any number of directory levels – zero or more – whatever it takes to make the rest of the pattern match.

hp.com

h71000.www7.hp.com

"HP OpenVMS DCL Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2007-03-25. Retrieved 2009-03-23.

in-ulm.de

"Ash Variants". Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2014-12-15.

lwn.net

Liljencrantz, Axel (2005-05-17). "Fish - The friendly interactive shell". Retrieved 2013-04-08.

microsoft.com

technet.microsoft.com

"Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)". Microsoft Technet. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
Push-Location (with alias pushd) and Pop-Location (with alias popd) allows multiple location types (directories of file systems, organizational units of Active Directory, nodes of Windows Registry etc) to be pushed onto and popped from location stacks.
The $host.ui.PromptForChoice function allows for a menu-style prompt for choices. The prompt works from background jobs as well as from remote sessions, displaying the menu prompt on the console of the controlling session.
The Write-Progress cmdlet writes a progress bar which can indicate percentage, remaining seconds etc. The progress bar messages work from background jobs or remote sessions in addition to interactive scripts, i.e. the progress bar is displayed on the console of the controlling session, not as part of the regular output.
The Show-Command cmdlet inspects the command definition and opens an interactive windows with a named input field for each parameter/switch
The .NET System.Math class defines mathematical functions that can be used through the shortcut [Math], e.g. [Math]::Sin for the sinus function.[2]
"About Data Sections". Technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
"Using the Read-Host Cmdlet". By adding the -assecurestring parameter you can mask the data entered at the prompt
"New-PSSessionConfigurationFile". Technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
"About Data Sections". Microsoft. Retrieved 2012-12-18.

docs.microsoft.com

sdwheeler. "Write-Host (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) - PowerShell". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
sdwheeler. "What's New in the PowerShell 5.0 ISE - PowerShell". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
sdwheeler. "about Operators - PowerShell". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-01-18.

learn.microsoft.com

sdwheeler. "Start-Process (Microsoft.PowerShell.Management) - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
sdwheeler. "Start-Job (Microsoft.PowerShell.Core) - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
sdwheeler. "PSReadLine Module - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.

msdn.microsoft.com

"Windows PowerShell 5.0". Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

devblogs.microsoft.com

"Get closure with GetNewClosure". devblogs.microsoft.com. 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2022-09-12.

openbsd.org

Default shell in OpenBSD is ksh (pdksh).
Provos, Niels. "Encrypting Virtual Memory". Center for Information Technology Integration, University of Michigan. Retrieved 2012-12-20.

oracle.com

docs.oracle.com

ksh93(1) man page

phoronix.com

Larabel, Michael (2021-03-23). "Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released". Phoronix. Retrieved 2021-03-28.

pwet.fr

"man sh - shell, the standard command language interpreter / posix" (in French). Pwet.fr. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

redox-os.org

gitlab.redox-os.org

Soller, Jeremy (2015-11-15). "d79c8f511573fb7710abc63b4236a40022914520". Retrieved 2019-08-03.

sourceforge.io

zsh.sourceforge.io

"[Z Shell] Completion System". Zsh.sourceforge.io. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
"zsh: 20. Completion System". Zsh.sourceforge.io. 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
Zsh offers a variety of globbing options.

sourceforge.net

A platform independent version based on the SVr4/Solaris source code is available from Jörg Schilling
"SchilliX-ON / SchilliX-ON Mercurial / [b1d9a2] /usr/src/cmd/sh". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2015-07-02.

ss64.com

"Set - Environment Variable - Windows CMD". SS64.com. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

stackoverflow.com

"How to loop through array in batch?". Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

technet.com

blogs.technet.com

"Use PowerShell to Make Mandatory Parameters". Blogs.technet.com. 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

tldp.org

Cooper, Mendel, "Chapter 37.3.2. Bash, version 4.2", Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, The Linux Documentation Project, retrieved 2015-04-30, "Bash now supports the \u and \U Unicode escape."

tuhs.org

minnie.tuhs.org

The historic UNIX V7 version is available under a BSD-style license through The Unix Heritage Society and others.

ubuntu.com

manpages.ubuntu.com

"Ubuntu Manpage: rc - shell". Manpages.ubuntu.com. 2003-07-17. Retrieved 2015-02-24.

uni-bonn.de

Paul, Matthias R. (1997-10-02) [1997-09-29]. "Caldera OpenDOS 7.01/7.02 Update Alpha 3 IBMBIO.COM - README.TXT and BOOT.TXT - A short description of how OpenDOS is booted". Archived from the original on 2003-10-04. Retrieved 2009-03-29. [1]

web.archive.org

"HP OpenVMS DCL Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2007-03-25. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
Paul, Matthias R. (1997-10-02) [1997-09-29]. "Caldera OpenDOS 7.01/7.02 Update Alpha 3 IBMBIO.COM - README.TXT and BOOT.TXT - A short description of how OpenDOS is booted". Archived from the original on 2003-10-04. Retrieved 2009-03-29. [1]
"Windows PowerShell 5.0". Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
"set_color - set the terminal color — fish-shell 3.1.2 documentation". fishshell.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
"Ash Variants". Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
"Linux / Unix Command: stty". Linux.about.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
"man sh - shell, the standard command language interpreter / posix" (in French). Pwet.fr. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

worldcat.org

Hahn, Harley (2009). Harley Hahn's guide to Unix and Linux. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN 978-0-07-313361-4. OCLC 184828059.

search.worldcat.org

Hahn, Harley (2009). Harley Hahn's guide to Unix and Linux. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN 978-0-07-313361-4. OCLC 184828059.

zsh.org

Lefevre, Vincent (2015-02-11). "multi-digit file descriptors". zsh-users (Mailing list). Retrieved 2021-12-23.