The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. The Bourne shell was the default shell for Version 7 Unix. Unix-like...
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Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project...
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its standard shell as a strict subset of the Korn shell, an enhanced version of the Bourne shell. From a user's perspective the Bourne shell was immediately...
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associated with a number of terms. Shells commonly present in Unix and Unix-like systems include the Korn shell, the Bourne shell, and GNU Bash. While a Unix...
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announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial development was based on Bourne shell source code. Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike...
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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...
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Initially a clone of the System V.4 variant of the Bourne shell, it replaced the original Bourne shell in the BSD versions of Unix released in the early...
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file using the Bourne shell, or a compatible shell, assumed to be in the /bin directory #!/bin/bash – Execute the file using the Bash shell #!/usr/bin/pwsh...
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known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix. Bourne has a Bachelor of Science...
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10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler. It was created by Tom Duff, who...
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Escape character (section Bourne shell)
as the sequence 0x7D 0x5D, and 0x7E is transmitted as 0x7D 0x5E. In Bourne shell (sh), the asterisk (*) and question mark (?) characters are wildcard...
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with &, similar to Bourne shell. It offers quoting and backslash escapes, though the single quotes work differently from Bourne shell. As a result of the...
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compared to Bourne shell (also known as sh), the then-dominant shell written by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs. This example illustrates the C shell's more conventional...
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is found in the original Bourne shell and its later counterpart Bash, and in the KornShell. In some cases a restricted shell is used in conjunction with...
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Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line shell)
structured programs. The Bourne shell led to the development of the KornShell (ksh), Almquist shell (ash), and the popular Bourne-again shell (or Bash). Early...
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Unix (1979), the PWB shell was superseded by the Bourne shell. The PWB shell was the standard shell for PWB/UNIX, circa 1975–78., but did not run on any...
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Less-than sign (section Shell scripts)
operator .LT. means "less than"; later versions allow <. In Bourne shell (and many other shells), operator -lt means "less than". Less-than sign is used...
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Shar (file format) (redirect from Shell archive)
because it is a valid shell script, and executing it will recreate the files. To extract the files, only the standard Unix Bourne shell sh is usually required...
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September 2005. MSYS (a contraction of "Minimal System") was introduced as a Bourne shell command line interpreter system with the aim of better interoperability...
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Greater-than sign (section Shell scripts)
Fortran, operator .GE. means "greater than or equal to". In Bourne shell and Windows PowerShell, the operator -ge means "greater than or equal to". In Lua...
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Integration, University of Michigan. Retrieved 2012-12-20. "bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell". read -s Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters...
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binary files into plain ASCII text. A shell archive is a collection of files that can be unpacked by the Bourne shell. A wide range of features provide extensive...
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Unary operation (section Unix shell (Bash))
sizeof(type-name) Cast: (type-name) cast-expression In the Unix shell (Bash/Bourne Shell), e.g., the following operators are unary: Pre and Post-Increment:...
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operating systems (Fedora, Debian, etc.) The tool has been written in Bourne shell, to allow for portability. It can run on almost all UNIX-derived systems...
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modern newsreaders. He contributed the code that allowed to convert the Bourne Shell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation...
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(Examples: IBM 1130, SDS 9XX, PDP-8) Return type Exit status in the Bourne shell, only integers in the range 0-255 may be returned "return Statement (C)"...
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first appeared in the Bourne shell, introduced with Version 7 Unix in 1979, and has remained a characteristic of all later Unix shells. The feature has since...
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publisher Bourne shell, in Unix Bourne stone, in Bourne, Massachusetts Bourne United Charities, a charitable body in Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne Brook (disambiguation)...
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reason! Word splitting is a broken legacy misfeature inherited from the Bourne shell that's stuck on by default if you don't quote expansions. The vast majority...
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Pwd (section Working directory shell variables)
the Unix pwd command originated. The command is a shell builtin in most Unix shells such as Bourne shell, ash, bash, ksh, and zsh. It can be implemented...
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