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BASH: Bourne-Again SHell

Bourne-again shell (BASH) is an interactive UNIX shell based on the traditional Bourne shell, but with increased functionality. Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.

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BASH: Bourne-Again SHell