Comparison of command shells (English Wikipedia)

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.

codeberg.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

A platform independent version based on the SVr4/Solaris source code is available from Jörg Schilling

collyer.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

debian.org (Global: 3,857^th place; English: 2,958^th place)

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 (Global: low place; English: 8,569^th place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

"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 (Global: 321^st place; English: 724^th place)

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 (Global: 5,469^th place; English: 3,758^th place)

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 (Global: 383^rd place; English: 320^th place)

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.
"find a way to make 'psub --fifo' safe from deadlock · Issue #1040 · fish-shell/fish-shell". GitHub.

gnu.org (Global: 1,475^th place; English: 1,188^th place)

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

groups.google.com (Global: 1,518^th place; English: 1,072^nd place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

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 (Global: 3,975^th place; English: 2,687^th place)

h71000.www7.hp.com

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

in-ulm.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

lwn.net (Global: 4,423^rd place; English: 2,925^th place)

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

microsoft.com (Global: 153^rd place; English: 151^st place)

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.

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.

msdn.microsoft.com

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

learn.microsoft.com

sdwheeler. "PSReadLine Module - PowerShell". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.

devblogs.microsoft.com

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

openbsd.org (Global: low place; English: 6,737^th place)

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 (Global: 1,514^th place; English: 1,024^th place)

docs.oracle.com

ksh93(1) man page

phoronix.com (Global: 4,683^rd place; English: 3,096^th place)

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

pwet.fr (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

redox-os.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

gitlab.redox-os.org

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

sourceforge.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

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 (Global: 1,669^th place; English: 1,290^th place)

"SchilliX-ON / SchilliX-ON Mercurial / [b1d9a2] /usr/src/cmd/sh". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2015-07-02.

ss64.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

stackoverflow.com (Global: 4,643^rd place; English: 2,973^rd place)

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

tldp.org (Global: low place; English: 9,792^nd place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

minnie.tuhs.org

The historic UNIX V7 version is available under a BSD-style license Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine through The Unix Heritage Society and others.

uni-bonn.de (Global: 6,912^th place; English: 8,465^th place)

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 (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

The historic UNIX V7 version is available under a BSD-style license Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine through The Unix Heritage Society and others.
"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". Pwet.fr. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

worldcat.org (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)

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 (Global: low place; English: low place)

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

Comparison of command shells (English Wikipedia)

about.com (Global: 216th place; English: 186th place)

linux.about.com

bitsavers.org (Global: 4,153rd place; English: 2,291st place)

books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)

codeberg.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

collyer.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

debian.org (Global: 3,857th place; English: 2,958th place)

bugs.debian.org

die.net (Global: low place; English: 8,569th place)

linux.die.net

fishshell.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

free.fr (Global: 321st place; English: 724th place)

stchaz.free.fr

freebsd.org (Global: 5,469th place; English: 3,758th place)

freebsd.org

docs.freebsd.org

github.com (Global: 383rd place; English: 320th place)

gnu.org (Global: 1,475th place; English: 1,188th place)

groups.google.com (Global: 1,518th place; English: 1,072nd place)

hamiltonlabs.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

hp.com (Global: 3,975th place; English: 2,687th place)

h71000.www7.hp.com

in-ulm.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

lwn.net (Global: 4,423rd place; English: 2,925th place)

microsoft.com (Global: 153rd place; English: 151st place)

technet.microsoft.com

docs.microsoft.com

msdn.microsoft.com

learn.microsoft.com

devblogs.microsoft.com

openbsd.org (Global: low place; English: 6,737th place)

oracle.com (Global: 1,514th place; English: 1,024th place)

docs.oracle.com

phoronix.com (Global: 4,683rd place; English: 3,096th place)

pwet.fr (Global: low place; English: low place)

redox-os.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

gitlab.redox-os.org

sourceforge.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

zsh.sourceforge.io

sourceforge.net (Global: 1,669th place; English: 1,290th place)

ss64.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

stackoverflow.com (Global: 4,643rd place; English: 2,973rd place)

tldp.org (Global: low place; English: 9,792nd place)

tuhs.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

minnie.tuhs.org

uni-bonn.de (Global: 6,912th place; English: 8,465th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 5th place; English: 5th place)

search.worldcat.org

zsh.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

about.com (Global: 216^th place; English: 186^th place)

bitsavers.org (Global: 4,153^rd place; English: 2,291^st place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

debian.org (Global: 3,857^th place; English: 2,958^th place)

die.net (Global: low place; English: 8,569^th place)

free.fr (Global: 321^st place; English: 724^th place)

freebsd.org (Global: 5,469^th place; English: 3,758^th place)

github.com (Global: 383^rd place; English: 320^th place)

gnu.org (Global: 1,475^th place; English: 1,188^th place)

groups.google.com (Global: 1,518^th place; English: 1,072^nd place)

hp.com (Global: 3,975^th place; English: 2,687^th place)

lwn.net (Global: 4,423^rd place; English: 2,925^th place)

microsoft.com (Global: 153^rd place; English: 151^st place)

openbsd.org (Global: low place; English: 6,737^th place)

oracle.com (Global: 1,514^th place; English: 1,024^th place)

phoronix.com (Global: 4,683^rd place; English: 3,096^th place)

sourceforge.net (Global: 1,669^th place; English: 1,290^th place)

stackoverflow.com (Global: 4,643^rd place; English: 2,973^rd place)

tldp.org (Global: low place; English: 9,792^nd place)

uni-bonn.de (Global: 6,912^th place; English: 8,465^th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)