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We've compiled a list of 17 free and paid alternatives to dash. The primary competitors include GNU Bourne Again SHell, Zsh. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between dash and fish, win-bash, OverOS. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


GNU Bourne Again SHell
Free Open Source

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system.

Zsh
Free Open Source

Zsh is a shell (e.g. bash replacement) designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful...

fish
Free Open Source

The friendly interactive shell.

win-bash
Free Open Source

win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

Simple shell/TUI written completely in c++ containing a basic "kernel", command support...

the xonsh shell
Free Open Source

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.

KornShell
Free Open Source

The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Xiki makes the command line friendlier and more powerful.

Janetsh
Free Open Source

System shell using the Janet programming language for high level scripting

Closh
Free Open Source

Bash-like shell based on Clojure

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible.

dash Platforms

tick-square Linux

dash Overview

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. DASH stands for Debian Almquist Shell.

dash Features

tick-square Command line interface

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dash Categories

OS and Utilities

dash Tags

tty interpreter unix bash shell command-line terminal-client

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