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Bookmark or Share- Bash (Unix shell) - WikipediaBash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation [2] and first developed for the GNU Project [3] by Brian Fox. [4] Designed as a 100% [5] free software alternative for the Bourne shell, [6] [7] [8] it was initially released in 1989. [9]
- The Ultimate Linux Command Line Guide - Full Bash TutorialBash (short for Bourne Again SHell) is a Unix shell, and a command language interpreter. A shell is simply a macro processor that executes commands. It’s the most widely used shell packaged by default for most Linux distributions, and a successor for the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh).
- What Is the Bash Shell, and Why Is It So Important to Linux? - How-To GeekWhen you open a terminal window and type commands, something has to take what you've typed, figure out what you intended, and run the tasks you asked for. The software that does this is the shell. A shell is a command interpreter.
- Bash - GNU Project - Free Software FoundationBash is the GNU Project's shell—the Bourne Again SHell. This is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.
- Bash Reference ManualBash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again SHell’, a pun on Stephen Bourne, the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix shell sh, which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.
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