Talk:List of command-line interpreters

Merge with Operating system shell?
"Operating system shell" and "(List of) command-line interpreters". I think both cones are the same. What is your opinion? They are different?

I am not a Wikipedia expert, but I think that 'articles' and 'lists' are treated differently by people who edit Wikipedia. Operating system shell (which redirects to Shell (computing)) is the 'article', and this is the 'list'. That is: Shell (computing) explains what a shell is, and this page is the list of shells.

So no, it would not be appropriate to merge them.

108.64.118.44 (talk) 02:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Merge with Command line interface?
Does anyone have any thoughts on merging the Command line interpreter into the Command line interface article? Both are very closely related, and both are expansions for the acronym CLI. Reading WP:MM, the quote in the Merging section that jumps out at me is: "There are two or more pages on related subjects that have a large overlap. Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there does not need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe. For example, "Flammable" and "Non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on Flammability"'  Add your thoughts and opinions below. Thomas Dzubin Talk 15:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I think they should be merged.--Sonjaaa (talk) 05:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It's a moot point, since one's a redirect for the other. TEDickey (talk) 08:31, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree that anything about the concept of command-line interpreter should also belong to the command-line interface article. But this article contained several lists which were deleted after the merger. I hope that "list of command-line interpreters" is a reasonable topic. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:03, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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Early history
From the 1960s onwards, user interaction with computers was primarily by means of command-line interfaces, initially on machines like the ASR-33 Teletype, but then on early [CRT]]-based computer terminals such as the [[VT52].

All of these devices were purely text based, with no ability to display graphic or pictures. For business application programs, text-based menus were used, but for more general interaction the command line was the interface.

From the early 1970s the Unix operating system on minicomputers pioneered the concept of a powerful command-line environment, which Unix called the "shell", with the ability to "pipe" the output of one command in asa input to another, and to save and re-run strings of commands as "shell scripts" which acted like custom commands.

Microcomputers
The command-line was also the main interface for the early home computers such as the: almost always in the form of a BASIC interpreter.
 * Commodore PET
 * Apple II
 * BBC Micro

When more powerful business orientated microcomputers arrived with CP/M and later MSDOS computers such as the IBM PC, the command-line borrowed some of the syntax and features of the Unix shells.

Graphic User Interfaces
The command-line was first seriously challenged by the new GUI approach in 1984 with the Apple Macintosh 128K, but it took until 1990 and Windows 3.0 before most users converted.

Command lines today
While most computer users now use a GUI almost exclusively, more advanced users now have access to increasinlgy powerful command-line environments:


 * MS Windows users have the classic cmd.exe "DOS"-like environment, but also the new PowerShell interfaces
 * Apple and Linux users have the classic Unix bash shell
 * Routers from Cisco and many others are commonly configured from the command-line

feel free to incorp or not - I'm taking a holiday from Wikipedia - Snori (talk) 10:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)