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    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...
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    execution of commands from files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set...
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    communication, and a shell scripting and command language (the Unix shell) is used to combine the tools to perform complex workflows. Unix distinguishes itself...
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    A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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    version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell. Although there are general...
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    Fish (or friendly interactive shell- stylized in lowercase) is a Unix-like shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Fish is designed to be feature-rich...
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    command line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler...
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    extended to Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows. On Unix-like systems, Secure Shell protocol (SSH) is usually used for text-based shells, while SSH...
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    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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    A shell account is a user account on a remote server, typically running under Unix or Linux operating systems. The account gives access to a text-based...
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    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...
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  • The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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    KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial...
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    or shell. Examples of command-line interpreters include Nushell, DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh...
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  • designed for Unix-like operating systems as a replacement for Telnet and unsecured remote Unix shell protocols, such as the Berkeley Remote Shell (rsh) and...
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  • CD-ROMs". UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL (PDF), vol. 2A (Seventh ed.), January 1979 Gilles. "linux - Why is SUID disabled for shell scripts...
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  • wish (Windowing Shell) is a Tcl interpreter extended with Tk commands, available for Unix-like operating systems supporting the X Window System, as well...
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    The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley...
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    completed. The standard shell syntax for anonymous pipes is to list multiple commands, separated by vertical bars ("pipes" in common Unix verbiage). The pipeline...
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  • Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark...
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  • Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s. Initially a clone...
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  • as another common UNIX utility, the restricted shell, which first appeared in PWB/UNIX; in System V Release 4, the restricted shell is often located at...
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  • 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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    command. alias is available in Unix shells, AmigaDOS, 4DOS/4NT, FreeDOS, KolibriOS, Windows PowerShell, ReactOS, and the EFI shell. Aliasing functionality in...
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  • Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems that evaluates conditional expressions. test was turned into a shell builtin command in 1981 with UNIX System...
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  • Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell since 1979, and most subsequent shells. Here document-style string literals...
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    with the shell. POSIX shells and other Unix shells allow background execution by using the & character at the end of command. In PowerShell, the Start-Process...
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    cat is a standard Unix utility that reads files sequentially, writing them to standard output. The name is derived from its function to (con)catenate files...
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    rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...
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  • "Text" or "Code" fields. Some Unix shells use the ampersand as a metacharacter: Some Unix shells, like the POSIX standard sh shell, use an ampersand to execute...
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