In computing, a command-line interpreter, or command language interpreter, is a blanket term for a certain class of programs designed to read lines of text entered by a user, thus implementing a command-line interface.
Operating system shells
Unix-like systems
There are many variants of Unix shell:
Microsoft Windows
- Note that most OS shells in Microsoft Windows are not command-line interpreters.
Native
Unix-styled and POSIX emulators
Other Windows-related
- Beemos[importance?]
- PyCmd [1] – A cmd.exe replacement, using the Win32 console window.
- Console [2] – A replacement for the Win32 console window. The default back-end is cmd.exe but other shells like PyCmd can be used too.
DOS
OS/2
IBM OS/400
Apple computers
Mobile devices
- DROS, Java ME platform based DOS-like shell for smartphones
Network routers
Main article:
Network router Other
Programming
Language systems
Debuggers
Scientific and engineering software
Scripting programming languages
Database queries
- sqsh, a shell available with some SQL implementations for database queries and other tasks.
- Google Shell, a browser-based front-end for Google Search
References
See also