Part 1: Shells
They are the program that runs when you open up the terminal.
Some common examples include…
- Bash Unix Shell bash
- Bourne Shell sh
- Debian Almquist Shell dash
- “Friendly Interactive” Shell fish
- Z Shell zsh
- C Shell csh
- GRUB (just hold down the PC’s power button)
- Microsoft Powershell pwsh
Full List
AmigaOS[edit]
- Amiga CLI/Amiga Shell
Unix-like systems[edit]
There are many variants of Unix shell:
- Bourne shell
sh- Almquist shell
ash - Bash (Unix shell)
bash - KornShell
ksh- Z shell
zsh
- Z shell
- Almquist shell
- C shell
csh- TENEX C shell
tcsh
- TENEX C shell
- 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[edit]
Native[edit]
- 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 as well.
- 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
- 4NT, a clone of CMD.EXE with additional features by JP Software
- Take Command, a newer incarnation of 4NT
Unix/Linux compatibility layer and POSIX subsystem[edit]
CP/M[edit]
Main article: CP/M
- Console Command Processor (CCP), the default command line interpreter
- ZCPR for the Z-System
- Microshell
DOS[edit]
Main article: 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[edit]
Main article: 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[edit]
Main article: IBM i
Apple computers[edit]
Mobile devices[edit]
- DROS, Java ME platform based DOS-like shell for smartphones
Network routers[edit]
Main article: Network router
Minicomputer CLIs[edit]
- Data General’s CLI (Command Line Interpreter) on RDOS and AOS Operating Systems and their variants
- Digital Equipment Corporation’s DIGITAL Command Language (DCL)
Other[edit]
- 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[edit]
Language systems[edit]
- APL (programming language)
- 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 (programming language), F#
- J (programming language)
- Haskell (programming language)
- Lisp
- Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop, an old command-line environment used for software development on the classic Mac OS
- Prolog
- Smalltalk
- Scala (programming language)
- Standard ML
Debuggers[edit]
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- 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[edit]
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Programming languages[edit]
Main article: scripting programming language
- BeanShell – shell for Java
- JavaScript shell – several programs by this name allow interactive JavaScript[3]
- Julia
- Jython
- Perl
- PHPsh – shell for PHP
- Python
- REXX
- Ruby
- Tcl
- tkcon shell and IDE for Tcl/Tk
- Windows Script Host
Database queries[edit]
- sqsh, a shell available with some SQL implementations for database queries and other tasks.
- Google Shell, a browser-based front-end for Google Search
Top 3 used shells
- bash
- sh
- dash
- fish
- zsh
- csh
- PowerShell
- GRUB
- Other (please comment!)
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Part 2: OS
The software that runs after your computer’s hardcoded BIOS and bootloader.
Most used OSes
- MacOS
- Windows <10
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- Debian
- Ubuntu XfCE
- Ubuntu KDE
- Kali Linux
- Arch Linux
- Other linux distro
- Other other (please comment!)
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Your top OS architecture
- x86_64
- x86_32
- arm64
- arm32
- Other 64 bit (please comment!)
- Other 32 bit (please comment!)
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Part 3: Command-line text editor
seriously, is it just me who uses emacs?
Top 2 used editors
- Emacs
- vi/vim
- nano
- basic
>syntax in bash awpin bash- GUI Notepad/Notepad++
- GUI TextEdit
- GUI (How dare you use GUI editors?!?!?) Other
- Other (please comment!)
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Part 4: Browsers
Your browser basically dictates your entire browsing experience, ranging from broken (such as IE) to laggy (Google Chrome).
Most used browser
- Google Chrome
- Google’d Chromium
- Non-Google Chromium
- Firefox
- Safari
- Edge
- IE <11
- IE 11
- wget/curl
- Emacs EWW
- Other (please comment!)
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Part 5: $PS1
It’s the starting point for almost all of your CLI commands.
Preferred PS1
- user@hostname: dir$
- sh 1.2%
- user@hostname: curr_dir%
- [user@hostname] $
- Other (please comment!)
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