Open-source alternatives to Slimzsh

Bash-it is a framework for organizing and enhancing the Bash shell environment. It provides a structured system for managing aliases, custom scripts, and environment settings to prevent clutter in the primary configuration file. The project includes a prompt customizer with predefined visual themes and a suite of intelligent command completions designed to increase typing speed and reduce input errors. The framework covers broad capability areas including shell configuration management, visual appearance customization, and environment troubleshooting through diagnostic utilities.

Powerlevel10k is a customizable Zsh theme framework and command line prompt customizer designed to create a visual shell status dashboard. It provides a toolkit for defining the layout, colors, and segments of a terminal prompt to improve the command line user experience. The project distinguishes itself through a flexible configuration system for prompt appearance and layout, allowing users to organize information segments across multiple lines and visually merge adjacent blocks. It supports extensive visual customization, including the use of custom font codepoints for icons and state-based

A community driven framework for zsh

hstr is an interactive terminal user interface for searching, navigating, and managing command history for Bash and Zsh shells. It functions as a shell history manager and a searchable suggest box for retrieving and executing previous shell instructions. The tool provides capabilities for command snippet bookmarking, allowing frequently used commands to be tagged and saved for immediate retrieval. It also enables the management of shell history logs by removing obsolete or sensitive entries. The system includes a fuzzy-match search mechanism and a text-based user interface to filter command

Zim is a Zsh configuration framework and environment manager designed to optimize shell performance and productivity. It serves as a plugin manager, prompt customizer, and performance optimizer that bundles themes and modules into a cohesive system. The framework distinguishes itself by using bytecode compilation to accelerate shell startup times and improve execution speed. It employs a modular system for installing, updating, and synchronizing external shell modules and scripts from local or remote sources. The project covers a broad range of capabilities, including developer workflow auto

The fastest shell plugin manager.

Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

Fisher is a plugin manager and shell extension manager specifically for the Fish shell. It provides a system for installing, updating, and removing plugins, themes, functions, and completion scripts. The tool uses a flat-file state persistence method to track installed extensions in a plain text file, which enables the synchronization of shell environments across different systems using version control. It covers the full lifecycle of shell extensions, including the discovery of installed plugins, the installation of packages from remote repositories, and the development of distributable she

Scala Scripting

A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

bash prompt with GIT, SVN and HG modules

Yet another shell

bash-git-prompt is a Bash shell extension and prompt customizer that integrates real-time Git status indicators directly into the terminal. It functions as a shell theme that displays branch names, commit divergence, and file status markers within the command line interface. The project distinguishes itself through a hierarchical configuration system that allows for directory-specific overrides of global settings. It includes performance tuning options to maintain shell responsiveness in large repositories by selectively disabling expensive operations such as remote fetching or untracked file

A heads up display for git

Demo of hot stuff in the Zsh

Improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with ztanesh project: the tools will make your shell more powerful and easier to use.

MirBSD Korn Shell Source Code Mirror – This is a publish-only repository and all pull requests are ignored. This repository is a mirror and may receive forced (non-fast-forward) updates. Please contribute to the CVS repository of The MirOS Project instead.

A powerful testing framework for ZSH projects

A customized bash environment to make git folders more friendly.

Next Generation Shell (NGS)

Liquidprompt is an adaptive command-line interface theme and context-aware status bar for Bash and Zsh. It functions as a shell environment indicator and tracker, displaying real-time system information, user identity, host connections, and working directory data directly within the prompt. The project features a theme engine that allows for the modification of layout, colors, and glyphs. It integrates version control status indicators to show active branches, tags, and commit statistics, alongside indicators for active container tools, orchestrators, and language-specific virtual environment

Nushell is a cross-platform shell and programming language designed to treat all input and output as structured data rather than raw text streams. By enforcing data types and command signatures, it provides a consistent environment for building robust, pipeline-oriented workflows. The shell allows users to chain commands that pass structured objects between stages, enabling complex data processing and automation tasks that remain predictable across different operating systems. What distinguishes the project is its focus on interactive data exploration and modular extensibility. Users can quer

This project is a configuration framework for the Fish shell, providing a centralized system for managing plugins, themes, and custom environment settings. It functions as a plugin manager and theme engine that allows users to install, update, and remove functional extensions and visual styles. The framework includes a shell extension scaffolder that generates standardized directory structures and boilerplate files for creating new plugins and themes. To ensure quality, it provides a specification-based testing suite for validating package functionality through automated assertions. The syst

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework. It functions as an object-oriented shell environment and a dynamic scripting language, enabling users to interact with system interfaces and manage infrastructure through a unified command-line interface. By executing as a managed application on the common language runtime, it provides direct access to native libraries and system APIs. The system is distinguished by its object-based pipeline, which processes structured data objects rather than raw text, allowing for precise property manipulation across comm