Comparison of command shells

For more details on this topic, see Shell (computing).
Bash, the default shell on many GNU/Linux distributions.

A command shell is a command line interface computer program to an operating system.

General characteristics

Usual environment Usually invoked Introduced Platform-independent Default login shell in Default script shell in License Source code availability User interface Mouse support Unicode support ISO 8601 support Console redirection Stream redirection Configurability Startup/shutdown scripts Batch scripts Logging available as statically linked, independent single file executable
Thompson shell UNIX sh 1971 N/A UNIX UNIX, N/A Yes Text-based CLI No No N/A Yes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Bourne shell 1977 version 7th Ed. UNIX sh 1977 Yes[1] 7th Ed. UNIX 7th Ed. UNIX, Proprietary[2] Yes Text-based CLI No No N/A Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (.profile) Yes (Unix feature) No Yes
Bourne shell current version Various UNIX sh 1977 Yes[3] SunOS-5.x, FreeBSD (non-root user)[4] SunOS-5.x CDDL[5] Yes Text-based CLI No Yes[6] N/A Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (.profile) Yes (Unix feature) Yes[7] Yes
POSIX shell[8] POSIX sh 1992[9] N/A N/A POSIX N/A N/A Text-based CLI No Yes, if used by configured locale N/A Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Unspecified (.profile given as an example) Yes (Unix feature) Yes N/A
bash (v4) POSIX bash, sh 1989[10] Yes GNU, Linux (default for root), Mac OS X 10.3+ GNU, Linux, Haiku, Mac OS X GPL Yes Text-based CLI No Yes[11] Yes (printf builtin) Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (/etc/profile, .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile, .bashrc) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
csh POSIX csh 1978 Yes SunOS ? BSD Yes Text-based CLI No No ? Yes Yes (stdin, stdout, stdout+stderr) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (~/.cshrc, ~/.login, ~/.logout) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
tcsh POSIX tcsh, csh 1983[12] Yes FreeBSD (default for root), formerly Mac OS X ? BSD Yes Text-based CLI No Yes ? Yes Yes (stdin, stdout, stdout+stderr) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (/etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, ~/.tcshrc, ~/.cshrc, ~/.history, ~/.login, ~/.cshdirs) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
Hamilton C shell Win32, OS/2 csh 1988[13] Yes (OS/2 version no longer maintained) Optional Optional Proprietary No Text-based CLI No No Yes (-t timestamp operator) Yes Yes (stdin, stdout, stdout+stderr) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (via login.csh, startup.csh and logout.csh) Yes (command line option) Yes Yes
Scsh POSIX scsh 1994 Yes ? ? BSD-style Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes
ksh (ksh93t+) POSIX ksh 1983[14][15] Yes AIX, HP-UX OpenSolaris Common Public License Yes Text-based CLI No Yes Yes (printf builtin with %(%F)T[16]) Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (system and user's profile and kshrc) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
pdksh POSIX ksh, sh 1989? Yes OpenBSD[17] OpenBSD[17] Public Domain Yes Text-based CLI No No N/A Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (/etc/profile, .profile) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
zsh POSIX zsh 1990 Yes Deepin, Gobolinux, Grml Grml MIT-style Yes Text-based CLI via additional code[18] Yes Yes (various internal features involving the date, by using the %F strftime format[19] and the -i option for the fc builtin[20]) Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables, options, functions, styles, etc.) Yes (system and user's zshenv, zprofile, zshrc, zlogin, zlogout) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
ash POSIX sh 1989 Yes Minix, BusyBox based systems NetBSD, Minix, BusyBox based systems BSD-style Yes Text-based CLI No Partial (for BusyBox, supported in command-line editing, but not in string handling[21]) N/A Yes Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (via variables and options) Yes (/etc/profile, .profile) Yes (Unix feature) Yes Yes
CCP CP/M, MP/M (CCP) 1975 (1973) No CP/M (no login), MP/M CP/M, MP/M Freeware (originally proprietary) Yes (originally closed-source) Text-based CLI No No No ? No No Yes (automatic via $$$.SUB) Partial (only via external SUBMIT command to update $$$.SUB) No Yes
COMMAND.COM DOS COMMAND 1980 No (3rd party implementations, not bound to a specific DOS vendor or version, available) DOS, Windows 95, 98, SE, ME DOS, Windows 95, 98, SE, ME vendor specific, f.e. MS-EULA,[22] or BSD/GPL (free clones) No (except for OpenDOS, DR-DOS, PTS/DOS and FreeDOS) Text-based CLI No No No (except for DR-DOS) Yes (via COMMAND con: or CTTY con:) Yes (stdin, stdout) Yes (via startup parameters and environment variables, DR-DOS also supports DIR /C /R user-default switch command) Yes (automatic \AUTOEXEC.BAT for primary shell, or explicitly via /P, /P:filename.bat or /K startup options) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) No Yes
OS/2 CMD.EXE OS/2 CMD 1987 No OS/2 OS/2 IBM-EULA[23] No Text-based CLI No No No No Yes (stdin, stdout, stderr) ? Partial (only via /K startup option) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) No ?
Windows CMD.EXE[24] Win32 CMD 1993 No Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista MS-EULA[25] No Text-based CLI No Partial (CHCP 65001 for UTF-8, but program arguments are still encoded in local codepage) No No Yes Yes (via registry, startup parameters, and environment variables) Yes (automatic via registry, or explicitly via /K startup option) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) No Yes
4DOS, NDOS DOS, Windows 95, 98, SE, ME 4DOS, NDOS 1989 (1986) No (not bound to a specific OS vendor or version) Optional Optional MIT License, with restrictions Yes Text-based CLI with TUI extensions Yes (popups, help system, %_MOUSE internal variable, INKEY /M command) No Yes Yes (via 4DOS con: or CTTY con:, except for DRAWBOX, DRAWLINE, DRAWVLINE, LIST, SCREEN, SCRPUT, SELECT, VSCRPUT commands and file / directory coloring) Yes (stdin, stdout, stderr, stdout+stderr) Yes (via 4DOS.INI/NDOS.INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS command) Yes (automatic \AUTOEXEC.BAT for primary shell and 4START.BTM/4START.BAT as well as 4EXIT.BTM/4EXIT.BAT for any shell, or explicitly via /P, /P:dir\filename.ext or /K startup options) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) Yes Yes
4OS2 OS/2 4OS2 1992 No (not bound to specific OS/2 versions) Optional Optional Freeware Yes Text-based CLI No No No No Yes (stdin, stdout, stderr, stdout+stderr) Yes (via 4OS2.INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS command) Yes (automatic via 4START.CMD/4START.BTM as well as 4EXIT.CMD/4EXIT.BTM files, or explicitly via /K startup.cmd option) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) Yes ?
TCC (formerly 4NT) Win32 TCC 1993 No (not bound to specific NT versions) optional optional Shareware No Text-based CLI (Take Command: GUI) Yes (console mouse, popups, help system, %_XMOUSE, %_YMOUSE internal variables, INKEY /M command) Yes Yes No Yes (stdin, stdout, stderr, stdout+stderr) Yes (via registry, TCMD.INI/4NT.INI file, startup parameters, environment variables, SETDOS command) Yes (automatic via registry and TCSTART/4START as well as TCEXIT/4EXIT, or explicitly via /K startup option) Yes (via CALL command or /C and /K startup options) Yes No
VMS DCL[26] OpenVMS ? 1977? Yes VMS VMS ? ? Text-based CLI ? No ? ? Yes (sys$input, sys$output assignment) ? Yes (SYS$MANAGER:SYLOGIN.COM or user defined LOGIN.COM) Yes Yes No
PowerShell .NET PowerShell 2006 Yes Windows Server 2008, 7, Vista, XP[27] Windows Server 2008, 7 MIT-style Yes Graphical CLI Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (via variables and options) Yes (%USERPROFILE%\Documents \WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1) Yes (PowerShell feature) Yes No
rc Plan 9, POSIX rc 1989 Yes Plan 9, Version 10 Unix Plan 9, Version 10 Unix Lucent Public License ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes
BeanShell Java ? 2005 Yes ? ? LGPL ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? No
fish POSIX fish 2005[28] Yes GhostBSD ? GPL Yes Text-based CLI ? Yes ? ? Yes (arbitrary fds) Yes (through environment variables and via web interface through fish_config) Yes (/etc/fish/config.fish and ~/.config/fish/config.fish) Yes (Unix feature) Yes (~/.config/fish/fish_history*) ?
Usual environment Usually invoked Introduced Platform-independent Default login shell in Default script shell in License Source code availability User interface Mouse support Unicode support ISO 8601 support Console redirection Stream redirection Configurability Startup/shutdown scripts Batch scripts Logging available as statically linked, independent single file executable

Interactive features

Command
name
completion
Path
completion
Command
argument
completion
Wildcard
completion
Command
history
Mandatory
argument
prompt
Automatic
suggestions
Syntax
highlighting
Directory history, stack or similar features Implicit
directory
change
Auto­correction Integrated
environment
Snippets Value
prompt
Menu/options
prompt
Progress
indicator
Context
sensitive
help
Command
builder
Thompson shell No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Bourne shell 1977 version No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No
Bourne shell current version No Yes[29] No No Yes[29] No No No Yes(CDPATH, pushd, popd, dirs), CDPATH since SVr4 No No No No Yes No No No No
POSIX shell No No No No Yes No No No Yes (CDPATH) No No No No Yes No No No No
bash (v4.0) Yes Yes when defined Yes[30] Yes No No No Yes (CDPATH, pushd, popd) optional No No No Yes Yes No No No
csh Yes Yes No No Yes No No No Yes (cdpath, pushd, popd) optional No No No Yes No No No No
tcsh Yes Yes when defined No Yes No No No Yes (cdpath, pushd, popd) optional Yes No No Yes No No No No
Hamilton C shell Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes (cdpath, pushd, popd) No No No No Yes No No No No
Scsh No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No
ksh (ksh93t+) Yes (extendable) Yes (extendable) No No Yes No No No Yes (cdpath builtin, pushd, popd implemented as functions) No No No No Yes Yes No No No
pdksh Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No No No
zsh Yes Yes when defined Yes[31] Yes No Yes (via predict-on or user-defined[32]) Third-party extension[33] Yes optional Yes No when defined (as ZLE widgets) Yes Yes No Yes No
ash No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No No No
CCP No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
COMMAND.COM No No No No No[34][35] No No No No No No No No No No (only via external CHOICE command, in DR-DOS also via SWITCH / DRSWITCH internal commands) No No No
OS/2
CMD.EXE
Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Windows
CMD.EXE
partial partial No No Yes (F8) No No No Yes (PUSHD, POPD) No No No No Yes (via SET /P command) No No No No
4DOS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[36][37] No No No (via popup, extended directory searches, CDPATH, PUSHD, POPD, DIRHISTORY, DIRS, CDD, CD - commands and %@DIRSTACK[] function) Yes No Yes No Yes (via INPUT, INKEY and ESET commands) Yes (via @SELECT[] function, and indirectly via a combination of INKEY, INPUT, SWITCH commands) No Yes No (except for OPTION command for INI file directives)
4OS2 ? ? ? ? Yes No No No Yes Yes No ? No ? ? No Yes No
TCC (formerly 4NT) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes (via popup, extended directory searches, CDPATH, PUSHD, POPD, DIRHISTORY, DIRS, CDD, CD - commands and %@DIRSTACK[] function) Yes No Yes No Yes (via INPUT, INKEY, ESET and SET /P commands) Yes (via @SELECT[] function, and indirectly via a combination of INKEY, INPUT, SWITCH commands)[38] No Yes No
Windows PowerShell Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (F8) Yes Yes, in ISE[39] Yes, in ISE[39] and PSReadLine[40] module(included in v5.0[41]) Yes; multiple stacks; multiple location types[42] No Yes, in PSReadLine[40] module Yes, in ISE[39] Yes, in ISE[39] Yes Yes[43] Yes[44] Yes, in ISE[39] popup window[45]
rc Yes[46] Yes[46] No No Yes[46] No No No No No No No No ? No No No No
BeanShell Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
VMS DCL Minimum uniqueness scheme No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No No Yes No No No No
fish Yes Yes when defined or parseable in man pages[47] Yes[47] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[48] No Yes (via fish_config command) No No No
Command
name
completion
Path
completion
Command
argument
completion
Wildcard
completion
Command
history
Mandatory
argument
prompt
Automatic
suggestions
Syntax
highlighting
Directory history, stack or similar features Implicit
directory
change
Auto­correction Integrated
environment
Snippets Value
prompt
Menu/options
prompt
Progress
indicator
Context
sensitive
help
Command
builder

Completions

Command-line completion in Bash.

Completion features assist the user in typing commands at the command line, by looking for and suggesting matching words for incomplete ones. Completion is generally requested by pressing the completion key (often the Tab ↹ key).

Command name completion is the completion of the name of a command. In most shells, a command can be a program in the command path (usually $PATH), a builtin command, a function or alias.

Path completion is the completion of the path to a file, relative or absolute.

Wildcard completion is a generalization of path completion, where an expression matches any number of files, using any supported syntax for file matching.

Variable completion is the completion of the name of a variable name (environment variable or shell variable). Bash, zsh, and fish have completion for all variable names. PowerShell has completions for environment variable names, shell variable names and — from within user-defined functions — parameter names.

Command argument completion is the completion of a specific command's arguments. There are two types of arguments, named and positional: Named arguments, often called options, are identified by their name or letter preceding a value, whereas positional arguments consist only of the value. Some shells allow completion of argument names, but few support completing values.

Bash, zsh and fish offer parameter name completion through a definition external to the command, distributed in a separate completion definition file. For command parameter name/value completions, these shells assume path/filename completion if no completion is defined for the command. Completion can be set up to suggest completions by calling a shell function.[49] The fish shell additionally supports parsing of man pages to extract parameter information that can be used to improve completions/suggestions. In PowerShell, all types of commands (cmdlets, functions, script files) inherently expose data about the names, types and valid value ranges/lists for each argument. This metadata is used by PowerShell to automatically support argument name and value completion for built-in commands/functions, user-defined commands/functions as well as for script files. Individual cmdlets can also define dynamic completion of argument values where the completion values are computed dynamically on the running system.

Command history

Main article: Command history

A user of a shell may find that he/she is typing something similar to what the user typed before. If the shell supports command history the user can call the previous command into the line editor and edit it before issuing it again.

Shells that support completion may also be able to directly complete the command from the command history given a partial/initial part of the previous command.

Most modern shells support command history. Shells which support command history in general also supports completion from history rather than just recalling commands from the history. In addition to the plain command text, PowerShell also records execution start- and end time and execution status in the command history.

Mandatory argument prompt

Mandatory arguments/parameters are arguments/parameters which must be assigned a value upon invocation the command, function or script file. A shell that can determine ahead of invocation that there are missing mandatory values, can assist the interactive user by prompting for those values instead of letting the command fail. Having the shell prompt for missing values will allow the author of a script, command or function to mark a parameter as mandatory instead of creating script code to either prompt for the missing values (after determining that it is being run interactively) or fail with a message.

PowerShell allows commands, functions and scripts to define arguments/parameters as mandatory. The shell determines prior to invocation if there is any mandatory arguments/parameters which have not been bound, and will then prompt the user for the value(s) before actual invocation. [50]

Automatic suggestions

Main article: Autocomplete
Command-line completion in PowerShell.

With automatic suggestions the shell monitors while the interactive user is typing and displays context-relevant suggestions without interrupting the typing instead of the user explicitly requesting completion.

The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment use the discoverable metadata to provide "intellisense" - i.e. suggestions that automatically pops up as the user types, in addition to when the user explicitly requests completion lists by pressing e.g. Tab ↹

Further information: Intellisense

Directory history, stack or similar features

A shell may record the locations the user has used as current locations and allow fast switching to any location/directory in the history.

One of the uses of the zsh directory stack is to record a directory history. In particular, the AUTO_PUSHD option and advanced cd arguments and completion are used for this purpose.

PowerShell allows multiple named stacks to be used. Locations (directories) can be pushed onto/popped from the current stack or a named stack. Any stack can become the current (default) stack. Unlike most other shells, PowerShell's location concept allow location stacks to hold file system locations as well as other location types like e.g. Active Directory organizational units/groups, SQL Server databases/tables/objects, Internet Information Server applications/sites/virtual directories.

4DOS and Take Command Console record history of current directories and allows the user to switch to a directory in the history using a popup a window.

Implicit directory change

A directory name can be used directly as a command which implicitly changes the current location to the directory.

Autocorrection

When a command line does not match a command or arguments directly, spell checking can automatically correct common typing mistakes (such as case sensitivity, missing letters). There are two approaches to this; the shell can either suggest probable corrections upon command invocation, or this can happen earlier as part of a completion or autosuggestion.

The tcsh and zsh shells feature optional spell checking/correction, upon command invocation.

Fish does the autocorrection upon completion and autosuggestion. The feature is therefore not in the way when typing out the whole command and pressing enter, whereas extensive use of the tab and right-arrow keys makes the shell mostly case insensitive.

The PSReadLine[40] PowerShell module(which is shipped with version 5.0) provides the option to specify a CommandValidationHandler ScriptBlock which runs before submitting the command. This allows for custom correcting of commonly mistyped commands, and verification before actually running the command.

Integrated environment

An integrated environment is the integration of the command-line interface with editors (typically multiple documents), help system and possibly debugging and other tools.

Take Command Console (TCC) comes with an integrated environment with command line pane, file explorer, editor, batch debugger and more.[51]

PowerShell ISE includes a command line pane with support for integrated command line, copy-paste, multiple document editors, source-level debugging, help pane, command explorer pane and scripting interface allowing scripts/modules to manipulate menus, add-ons etc. The ISE (menus, windows, shortcuts, addons) are customizable through scripts.[52]

Snippets

Main article: Snippet (programming)

Snippets are small regions of reusable script code. Snippets are often used to save keystrokes, or to assist the user with common scripting patterns. Many text editors support snippets for scripting either as built-in functionality or through plugins.

PowerShell supports snippets in the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) using Ctrl+J.[53]

Value prompt

A shell script can prompt the interactive user for a value.

Menu/options selector

A shell script can present the interactive user with a list of choices.

Progress indicator

A shell script (or job) can report progress of long running tasks to the interactive user.

Unix/Linux systems may offer other tools support using progress indicators from scripts or as standalone-commands, such as the program "pv".[54] These are not integrated features of the shells, however.

PowerShell has a built-in command and API functions (to be used when authoring commands) for writing/updating a progress bar. Progress bar messages are sent separates from regular command output and the progress bar is always displayed at the ultimate interactive users console regardless of whether the progress messages originates from an interactive script, from a background job or from a remote session.

Interactive table

Output from a command execution can be displayed in a table/grid which can be interactively sorted and filtered and/or otherwise manipulated after command execution ends.

PowerShell Out-GridView cmdlet displays data in an interactive window with interactive sorting and filtering.

Syntax highlighting

Main article: Syntax highlighting

An independent project offers syntax highlighting as an add-on to the Z Shell (zsh).[55] This is not part of the shell, however.

PowerShell provides customizable syntax highlighting on the command line through the PSReadLine[40] module. This module can be used with PowerShell v3.0+, and it's included with v5.0. Additionally, it is loaded by default in the command line host "powershell.exe" in v5.0. The PowerShell ISE also includes syntax highlighting on the command line as well as in the script pane.[52] Take Command Console (TCC) offers syntax highlighting in the integrated environment.

Context sensitive help

4DOS, 4OS2, 4NT / Take Command Console and PowerShell (in PowerShell ISE) looks up context-sensitive help information when F1 is pressed.

Zsh provides various forms of configurable context-sensitive help as part of its run-help widget, _complete_help command, or in the completion of options for some commands.

Command builder

A command builder is a guided dialog which assists the user in filling in a command. PowerShell has a command builder which is available in PowerShell ISE or which can be displayed separately through the Show-Command cmdlet.[56]

Programming features

Functions Exception handling Search & replace on variable substi­tutions Arith­metic Floating point Math function library Linear arrays or lists Assoc­iative arrays Lambda functions eval func­tion Pseudo­random number generation Bytecode
Bourne shell 1977 version No Yes (via trap) No No No No No No No Yes No No
Bourne shell current version Yes since SVR2 Yes (via trap) No Yes[29] No No No No No Yes No No
POSIX shell Yes Yes (via trap) No Yes No No No No No Yes No No
bash (v4.0) Yes Yes (via trap) Yes (via ${//} syntax) Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes ($RANDOM) No
csh No No Yes (via $var:s/// syntax) Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No
tcsh No No Yes (via $var:s/// syntax) Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No
Hamilton C shell Yes No Yes (via $var:s/// syntax) Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes (random utility) No
Scsh Yes ? Yes (via string functions and regular expressions) ? ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes (random-integer, random-real) Yes (compiler is Scheme48 virtual machine, via scshvm)
ksh (ksh93t+) Yes Yes (via trap) Yes (via ${//} syntax and builtin commands) Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes ($RANDOM) Yes (compiler is called shcomp)
pdksh Yes Yes (via trap) No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes ($RANDOM) No
zsh Yes Yes Yes (via ${:s//} and ${//} syntax) Yes Yes Yes (zsh/mathfunc module) Yes Yes No Yes Yes ($RANDOM) Yes (built-in zcompile command)
ash Yes Yes (via trap) No Yes (since 1992)[57] No No No No No Yes No No
CCP No ? No No ? ? No No No No No No
COMMAND.COM No Partial (only Auto-fail (via COMMAND /F (or /N in some versions of DR-DOS)) No No No No No No No No No No
OS/2 CMD.EXE No No No ? No No ? No No No No No
Windows CMD.EXE Yes (via CALL :label) No Yes (via SET %varname:expression syntax) Yes (via SET /A)[58] No No Yes (via SET[59]) No No No Yes (%random%) No
4DOS Yes Yes (via ON command, optional Auto-fail via 4DOS /F) Yes (via %@Replace[…] function) Yes (via SET /A) ? ? Yes (via ranges, include lists, @file lists and FOR command) No No Yes Yes (%@Random[…] function) Yes (via BATCOMP command)
4OS2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes Yes (%@Random[…] function) ?
TCC (formerly 4NT) Yes Yes (via ON and various …MONITOR commands) Yes (via %@Replace[…] function) Yes (via SET /A) ? ? Yes (via ranges, include lists, @file lists and FOR command) ? No Yes Yes (%@Random[…] function) Yes (via BATCOMP command)
Windows PowerShell Yes Yes Yes (-replace operator) Yes Yes [Math] class[60] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, automatic
rc Yes Yes No ? ? ? ? ? No Yes No No
BeanShell Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
VMS DCL Yes Yes No Yes ? ? Yes ? No No No No
fish Yes Yes (via trap) No Optional fish math Optional fish math Optional fish math Yes No No Yes Yes (random) No
Notes
^fish math :The bundled math function requires bc.

String processing and filename matching

String processing Alternation (Brace expansion) Pattern matching (regular expressions built-in) Pattern matching (filename globbing) Globbing qualifiers (filename generation based on file attributes) Recursive globbing (generating files from any level of subdirectories)
Bourne shell 1977 version ? No No Yes (*, ?, […]) No No
Bourne shell recent version Partial (prefix and suffix stripping in variable expansion) No No Yes (*, ?, […]) No No
POSIX shell Partial (prefix and suffix stripping in variable expansion) No No Yes (*, ?, […]) No No
bash (v4.0) Partial (prefix and suffix stripping in variable expansion) Yes Yes Yes (*, ?, […], {…}) No Yes (**/...)
csh Yes (:s and other editing operators) Yes No Yes No No
tcsh Yes (:s and other editing operators) Yes Yes Yes No No
Hamilton C shell Yes (:s and other editing operators + substr, strlen, strindex, printf, reverse, upper, lower, concat and other builtin functions) Yes No Yes No Yes (via indefinite directory "..." wildcard[61])
Scsh ? ? Yes Yes No No
ksh (ksh93t+) Partial (prefix, suffix stripping and string replacement in variable expansion) Yes[62] Yes Yes (*, ?, […]) No Yes (with set -G, no following of symlinks)
pdksh ? Yes[62] No Yes No No
zsh Yes (through variable processing: e.g. substring extraction, various transformations via parameter expansion) Yes Yes Yes (*, ?, […], extended globbing[63]) Yes Yes (**/... or ***/... to follow symlinks)
ash ? ? No Yes No No
CCP No No No No No No
COMMAND.COM No No No Yes (*, ?) No No
OS/2 CMD.EXE No No No Yes (*, ?) Partial (only in DIR /A:… command) No
Windows CMD.EXE Partial (only through FOR /F and SET /A) No No[64] Yes (*, ?) Partial (only in DIR /A:… command) Yes (via FOR /R command, or, where available, indirectly via /S subdir option)
4DOS Yes (through variable functions %@…[], extended environment variable processing, various string commands and FOR /F and SET /A) No No Yes (*, ?, […], extended wildcards, SELECT popup command) Yes (via /A:… attribute and /I"…" description options and /[S…] size, /[T…] time, /[D…] date, and /[!…] file exclusion ranges) Yes (via FOR /R command, or indirectly via GLOBAL command or, where available, /S subdir option)
4OS2 ? No No ? ? ?
TCC (formerly 4NT) Yes (through variable functions %@…[], extended environment variable processing, various string commands and FOR /F and SET /A) No Yes Yes (*, ?, […], extended wildcards, SELECT popup command) Yes (via /A:… attribute and /I"…" description options and /[S…] size, /[T…] time, /[D…] date, /[O…] owner, and /[!…] file exclusion ranges) Yes (via FOR /R command, or indirectly via GLOBAL command or, where available, /S subdir option)
Windows PowerShell Yes (Concat/Substring/Insert/Remove/Replace, ToLower/ToUpper, Trim/TrimStart/TrimEnd, Compare, Contains/StartsWith/EndWith, Format, IndexOf/LastIndexOf, Pad/PadLeft/PadRight, Split/Join, regular expression functions and other .NET string functions) No Yes (full regex support)[65] Yes (*, ?, […]) ? ?
rc ? ? No Yes No No
BeanShell ? ? Yes ? ? ?
VMS DCL ? ? No Yes No Yes (via [SUBDIR…])
fish No Yes No Yes (*, ?, {…}) No Yes (**/...)

Inter-process communication

Pipes Command substitution Process substitution Subshells TCP/UDP connections as streams Keystroke stacking
Bourne shell bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
POSIX shell bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
bash (v4.0) bytes concurrent Yes Yes (if system supports /dev/fd/<n> or named pipes) Yes Yes (client only) N/A[66]
csh bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
tcsh bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
Hamilton C shell bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No ?
Scsh text ? ? ? Yes N/A[66]
ksh (ksh93t+) bytes (may contain serialized objects if print -C is used) concurrent Yes ($(…) and ${<space>…;}) Yes (if system supports /dev/fd/<n>) Yes Yes (and SCTP support, client only) N/A[66]
pdksh bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
zsh bytes concurrent Yes Yes Yes Yes (client and server, but only TCP) N/A[66]
ash bytes concurrent Yes No Yes No N/A[66]
CCP No No No No No No
COMMAND.COM text sequential temporary files No No Partial (only under DR-DOS multitasker via COMMAND.COM /T) No No
OS/2 CMD.EXE text concurrent No No ? No No
Windows CMD.EXE text concurrent Yes (via FOR /F command) No Yes (Backtick: ` in FOR /F usebackq) No No
4DOS text sequential temporary files Yes (via FOR /F command) ? Partial (via %@EXECSTR[] and %@EXEC[], or via SET /M, ESET /M and UNSET /M and %@MASTER[…]) No Yes (via KEYSTACK and KSTACK)[67]
4OS2 text concurrent ? ? ? No Yes (via KEYSTACK)
TCC (formerly 4NT) text concurrent Yes (via FOR /F command) ? Partial (via %@EXECSTR[] and %@EXEC[]) Yes (via FTP, TFTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS and IFTP, client only) Yes (via KEYSTACK)
Windows PowerShell objects concurrent Yes No Yes Yes ?
rc text concurrent Yes Yes (via: <{cmd} if system supports /dev/fd/<n>) Yes No ?
BeanShell not supported ? ? ? Yes ?
VMS DCL text (via PIPE command) No No Yes (spawn) Yes (server TCP only) ?
fish bytes concurrent Yes (...) No (broken)[68] No No N/A[66]

Keystroke stacking

In anticipation of what a given running application may accept as keyboard input, the user of the shell instructs the shell to generate a sequence of simulated keystrokes, which the application will interpret as an keyboard input from an interactive user. By sending keystroke sequences the user may be able to direct the application to perform actions that would be impossible to achieve through input redirection or would otherwise require an interactive user, f.e. if an application acts on keystrokes, which cannot be redirected, distinguishes between normal and extended keys, flushes the queue before accepting new input on startup or under certain conditions, or because it does not read through standard input at all. Keystroke stacking typically also provides means to control the timing of simulated keys being sent or to delay new keys until the queue was flushed etc. It also allows to simulate keys which are not present on a keyboard (because the corresponding keys do not physically exist or because a different keyboard layout is being used) and therefore would be impossible to type by a user.

Security features

Secure (password) prompt Encrypted variables/ parameters File/directory passwords Execute permission Untrusted script blocking Restricted shell subset Safe data subset
Bourne shell via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
POSIX shell via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No No No
bash (v4.0) read -s No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
csh via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
tcsh via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
Hamilton C shell No No No No No No No
Scsh via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No No No
ksh (ksh93t+) via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
pdksh via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
zsh read -s No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
ash via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes No
CCP No No No No No No No
COMMAND.COM Partial (only under DR-DOS, prompts for password if file/directory is protected) No Partial (only under DR-DOS via \dirname;dirpwd\filename;filepwd syntax)[71] Partial (only under DR-DOS, if files are password-protected for read and/or execute permission)[72] No No No
OS/2 CMD.EXE No No No No No No No
Windows CMD.EXE No No No No No No No
4DOS Yes (via INPUT /P or INKEY /P)[73] No Partial (only under DR-DOS via \dirname;;dirpwd\filename;;filepwd syntax)[71] Partial (only under DR-DOS, if files are password-protected for read and/or execute permission)[72] No No No
4OS2 ? No No No No No No
TCC (formerly 4NT) Yes (via INPUT /P, INKEY /P or QUERYBOX /P)[73] No No No No No No
Windows PowerShell Yes[74] Yes No No[75] Yes[76] Yes[77] Yes[78]
rc via stty[69] No ? N/A[70] No Yes[79] No
BeanShell ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VMS DCL ? No ? No No No No
fish read -s No ? N/A[70] No Yes (via fish -l) ?

Secure prompt

Some shell scripts need to query the user for sensitive information such as passwords, private digital keys, PIN codes or other confidential information. Sensitive input should not be echoed back to the screen/input device where it could be gleaned by unauthorized persons. Plaintext memory representation of sensitive information should also be avoided as it could allow the information to be compromised, e.g., through swap files, core dumps etc.[80]

The shells bash, zsh and Windows PowerShell offer this as a specific feature.[81][82] Shells which do not offer this as a specific feature may still be able to turn off echoing through some other means. Shells executing on a Unix/Linux operating system can use the stty external command to switch off/on echoing of input characters.[83] In addition to not echoing back the characters, PowerShell's -AsSecureString option also encrypts the input character-by-character during the input process, ensuring that the string is never represented unencrypted in memory where it could be compromised through memory dumps, scanning, transcription etc.

Encrypted variables/parameters

If a script reads a password into an environment variable it is in memory in plain text, and thus may be accessed via a core dump. It is also in the process environment, which may be accessible by other processes started by the script.[84]

PowerShell can work with encrypted string variables/parameters.[85] Encrypted variables ensure that values are not inadvertently disclosed through e.g. transcripts, echo'ing, logfiles, memory or crash dumps or even malicious memory scanning. PowerShell also supports saving of such encrypted strings in text files, protected by a key owned by the current user.

Execute permission

Some operating systems define an execute permission which can be granted to users/groups for a file.

On Unix systems, the execute permission controls access to invoking the file as a program, and applies both to executables and scripts. As the permission is enforced in the program loader, no obligation is needed from the invoking program, nor the invoked program, in enforcing the execute permission — this also goes for shells and other interpreter programs. The behaviour is mandated by the POSIX C library that is used for interfacing with the kernel: POSIX specifies that the exec family of functions shall fail with EACCESS (permission denied) if the file denies execution permission (see execve  System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX® Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group).

The execute permission only applies when the script is run directly. If a script is invoked as an argument to the interpreting shell, it will be executed regardless of whether the user holds the execute permission for that script.

Although Windows also specifies an execute permission, none of the Windows specific shells block script execution if the permission has not been granted.

Untrusted script blocking

Some shells will block scripts determined to be untrustworthy, or refuse to run scripts if mandated by a system administrator.

Script origin execution restriction

PowerShell can be set to block execution of scripts which has been marked as obtained from an unknown/untrusted origin (e.g. the Internet).[86] Internet facing applications such as web browsers, IM clients, mail readers etc. mark files downloaded from the internet with the origin zone in an alternate data stream which is understood by PowerShell.

Signed script restriction

Script/code signing policies can be used to ensure that an operations department only run approved scripts/code which have been reviewed and signed by a trusted reviewer/approver. Signing regimes also protects against tampering. If a script is sent from vendor to a client, the client can use signing to ensure that the script has not been tampered with during transit and that the script indeed originates from the vendor and not an attacker trying to social engineer an operator into running an attack script.

PowerShell can be set to allow execution of otherwise blocked scripts (e.g. originating from an untrusted zone) if the script has been digitally signed using a trusted digital certificate.[87][88][89]

Multilevel execution policies

A company may want to enforce execution restriction globally within the company and/or certain parts of the company. It may want to set a policy for running signed scripts but allow certain parts of the company to set their own policies for zoned restrictions.

PowerShell allows script blocking policies to be enforced at multiple levels: Local machine, current user etc. A higher level policy overrides a lower level policy, e.g. if a policy is defined for the local machine it is in place for all users of the local machine, only if it is left undefined at the higher level can it be defined for the lower levels.

Restricted shell subset

Several shells can be started or be configured to start in a mode where only a limited set of commands and actions is available to the user. While not a security boundary (the command accessing a resource is blocked rather than the resource) this is nevertheless typically used to restrict users' actions before logging in.

A restricted mode is part of the POSIX specification for shells, and most of the Linux/Unix shells support such a mode where several of the built-in commands are disabled and only external commands from a certain directory can be invoked.[90][91]

PowerShell supports restricted modes through session configuration files or session configurations. A session configuration file can define visible (available) cmdlets, aliases, functions, path providers and more.[92]

Safe data subset

Scripts that invoke other scripts can be a security risk as they can potentially execute foreign code in the context of the user who launched the initial script. Scripts will usually be designed to exclusively include scripts from known safe locations; but in some instances, e.g. when offering the user a way to configure the environment or loading localized messages, the script may need to include other scripts/files.[93] One way to address this risk is for the shell to offer a safe subset of commands which can be executed by an included script.

PowerShell data sections can contain constants and expressions using a restricted subset of operators and commands.[94] PowerShell data sections are used when e.g. localized strings needs to be read from an external source while protecting against unwanted side effects.

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