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The shells bash, zsh and PowerShell offer this as a specific feature. [69] [70] 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. [71]
The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh. Zsh was created by Paul Falstad in 1990 while he was a student at Princeton University.
As a terminal emulator, the application provides text-based access to the operating system, in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of macOS, by providing a command-line interface to the operating system when used in conjunction with a Unix shell, such as zsh (the default interactive shell since macOS Catalina [3]). [4]
Many Linux distributions have the Bash implementation of the Unix shell. Apple macOS and some Linux distributions use zsh. Previously, macOS used tcsh and Bash. Embedded Linux (and other embedded Unix-like) devices often use the Ash implementation of the Unix shell, as part of Busybox.
[70] [71] "The bash binary bundled with macOS has been stuck on version 3.2 for a long time now. bash v4 was released in 2009 and bash v5 in January 2019. The reason Apple has not switched to these newer versions is that they are licensed with GPL v3. bash v3 is still GPL v2." [69] Zsh uses a more permissive license. [72] 2019 ()
tcsh and sh shell windows on a Mac OS X Leopard [1] desktop A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems . The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language , and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system ...
Early versions of Mac OS X shipped with tcsh as the default shell, but the default for new accounts became bash as of 10.3, then zsh as of 10.15.
Bash: Shell, scripting: Yes No No Yes No No Optionally POSIX.2 [13] BASIC: Application, education Yes No No Yes No No Yes 1983, ANSI, ISO, ECMA BeanShell: Application, scripting Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No In progress, JCP [14] BLISS: System No No No Yes No No No BlitzMax: Application, game Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Boo: Application, game scripting ...