Comparison of command shells Wikipedia. Bash, the default shell on many GNULinux distributions. A command shell is a command line interface computer program to an operating system. General characteristicseditShell. Usual environment. Usually invoked. Introduced. Platform independent. Default login shell in. Driver Microsoft Odbc For Oracle Vb Script Mid. Default script shell in. License. Source code availability. User interface. Mouse support. Unicode support. ISO 8. Console redirection. Streamredirection. Configurability. Startupshutdown scripts. Batch scripts. Loggingavailable as statically linked, independent single file executable. Thompson shell. UNIXsh. NAUNIXUNIX,NAYes. Text based CLINo. No. NAYes. NANANANANANABourne shell 1. Ed. UNIXsh. 19. 77. Active Directory User Template Variables Definition' title='Active Directory User Template Variables Definition' />Yes17th Ed. UNIX7th Ed. UNIX,Proprietary2Yes. Getting Started Overview. If youre new to Git or distributed version control systems generally, then you might want to read Git for Eclipse Users first. Text based CLINo. No. NAYes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes. Yes Unix featureNo. Comprehensive index to all features provided by Visual Studio Team Services VSTS and Team Foundation Server TFS. Filters in Ansible are from Jinja2, and are used for transforming data inside a template expression. Jinja2 ships with many filters. See builtin filters in the. Yes. Bourne shell current version. Various UNIXsh. 19. Yes3Sun. OS 5. Free. BSD non root user4Sun. OS 5. x. CDDL5better source neededYes. Text based CLINo. Yes6better source neededNAYes. Templates in Microsoft Word. Normal. dot, global templates, user templates, workgroup templates are examined and explained. A chapter in the Intermediate Users Guide. A key pressed while holding down the ALT key that allows the user to open a menu, carry out a command, select an object, or move to an object. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes. Yes Unix featureYes7Yes. POSIX shell8POSIXsh. NANAPOSIXNANAText based CLINo. Yes, if used by configured locale. NAYes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsUnspecified. Yes Unix featureYes. NAbash v. 4POSIXbash, sh. Yes. GNU, Linux default for root, Mac OS X 1. GNU, Linux, Haiku, Mac OS XGPLYes. Text based CLINo. Yes1. 1better source neededYes printf builtinYes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes etcprofile,. Yes Unix featureYes. Yescsh. POSIXcsh. Yes. Sun. OS BSDYes. Text based CLINo. No Yes. Yes stdin, stdout, stdoutstderrYes via variables and optionsYes. Yes Unix featureYes. Yestcsh. POSIXtcsh, csh. Yes. Free. BSD default for root, formerly Mac OS X BSDYes. Text based CLINo. Yes Yes. Yes stdin, stdout, stdoutstderrYes via variables and optionsYes etccsh. Yes Unix featureYes. Yes. Hamilton C shell. Win. 32, OS2csh. Yes OS2 version no longer maintainedOptional. Optional. Proprietary. No. Text based CLINo. No. Yes t timestamp operatorYes. Yes stdin, stdout, stdoutstderrYes via variables and optionsYes via login. Yes command line optionYes. Yes. Scsh. POSIXscsh. Yes BSD style. Yes Yes Yesksh ksh. POSIXksh. 19. 831. Yes. AIX, HP UXOpen. Solaris. Common Public License. Yes. Text based CLINo. Yes. Yes printf builtin with FT1. Yes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes system and users profile and kshrcYes Unix featureYes. Yespdksh. POSIXksh, sh. Yes. Open. BSD1. Open. BSD1. 7Public Domain. Yes. Text based CLINo. No. NAYes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes etcprofile,. Yes Unix featureYes. Yeszsh. POSIXzsh. Yes. Deepin, Gobolinux, Grml. Grml. MIT style. Yes. Text based CLIvia additional code1. Yes. Yes various internal features involving the date, by using the Fstrftime format1. Yes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables, options, functions, styles, etc. Yes system and users zshenv, zprofile, zshrc, zlogin, zlogoutYes Unix featureYes. Yesash. POSIXsh. 19. Yes. Minix, Busy. Box based systems. Net. BSD, Minix, Busy. Box based systems. BSD style. Yes. Text based CLINo. Partial for Busy. Box, supported in command line editing, but not in string handling2. NAYes. Yes arbitrary fdsYes via variables and optionsYes etcprofile,. Yes Unix featureYes. Yes. CCPCPM, MPMCCP1. No. CPM no login, MPMCPM, MPMFreeware originally proprietaryYes originally closed sourceText based CLINo. No. No No. No. Yes automatic via. SUBPartial only via external SUBMIT command to update. SUBNo. Yes. COMMAND. COMDOSCOMMAND1. 98. No 3rd party implementations, not bound to a specific DOS vendor or version, availableDOS, Windows 9. SE, MEDOS, Windows 9. SE, MEvendor specific, f. MS EULA,2. 2 or BSDGPL free clonesNo except for Open. DOS, DR DOS, PTSDOS and Free. DOSText based CLINo. No. No except for DR DOSYes via COMMAND con or CTTY con Yes stdin, stdoutYes via startup parameters and environment variables, DR DOS also supports DIR C R user default switch commandYes automatic AUTOEXEC. BAT for primary shell, or explicitly via P, P filename. K startup optionsYes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsNo. Yes. OS2 CMD. EXEOS2. CMD1. 98. 7No. OS2. OS2. IBM EULA2. No. Text based CLINo. No. No. No. Yes stdin, stdout, stderr Partial only via K startup optionYes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsNo Windows CMD. EXE2. Win. 32. CMD1. No. Windows NT, 2. XP, Server 2. 00. Vista. Windows NT, 2. XP, Server 2. 00. Vista. MS EULA2. No. Text based CLINo. Partial CHCP6. 50. UTF 8, but program arguments are still encoded in local codepageNo. No. Yes. Yes via registry, startup parameters, and environment variablesYes automatic via registry, or explicitly via K startup optionYes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsNo. Yes. 4DOS, NDOSDOS, Windows 9. SE, ME4. DOS, NDOS1. No not bound to a specific OS vendor or versionOptional. Optional. MIT License, with restrictions. Yes. Text based CLI with TUI extensions. Yes popups, help system, MOUSE internal variable, INKEY M commandNo. Yes. Yes via CTTY con, except for DRAWBOX, DRAWLINE, DRAWVLINE, LIST, SCREEN, SCRPUT, SELECT, VSCRPUT commands and file  directory coloringYes stdin, stdout, stderr, stdoutstderrYes via 4. DOS. ININDOS. INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS commandYes automatic AUTOEXEC. BAT for primary shell and 4. START. BTM4. START. BAT as well as 4. EXIT. BTM4. EXIT. BAT for any shell, or explicitly via P, P dirfilename. K startup optionsYes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsYes. Yes. 4OS2. OS2. 4OS2. No not bound to specific OS2 versionsOptional. Optional. Freeware. Yes. Text based CLINo. No. No. No. Yes stdin, stdout, stderr, stdoutstderrYes via 4. OS2. INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS commandYes automatic via 4. START. CMD4. START. BTM as well as 4. EXIT. CMD4. EXIT. BTM files, or explicitly via K startup. Yes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsYesTCC formerly 4. NTWin. TCC1. 99. 3No not bound to specific NT versionsoptionaloptional. Shareware. No. Text based CLI Take Command GUIYes console mouse, popups, help system, XMOUSE, YMOUSE internal variables, INKEY M commandYes. Yes. No. Yes stdin, stdout, stderr, stdoutstderrYes via registry, TCMD. INI4. NT. INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS commandYes automatic via registry and TCSTART4. START as well as TCEXIT4. EXIT, or explicitly via K startup optionYes via CALL command or C and K startup optionsYes. No. VMS DCL2. 6Open. VMSAutomatically for logininteractive process. Yes. VMSVMSProprietary, bundled in VMSby special license only. Text based CLIwith DECwindowsMotif. Yes. Yes, at least to 1. Yes. Yes sysinput, sysoutput assignmentYes via symbols, logical names, and optionsYes SYSMANAGER SYLOGIN. COM and user defined LOGIN. COMYes. Yes. No. Power. Shell. NETPower. Shell. Yes. Windows Server 2. Vista, XP2. 7Windows Server 2. MIT style. Yes. Graphical CLIYes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes via variables and optionsYes USERPROFILEDocuments Windows. Power. ShellMicrosoft. Power. Shellprofile. Yes Power. Shell featureYes. Norc. Plan 9, POSIXrc. Yes. Plan 9, Version 1. Unix. Plan 9, Version 1.