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The first major shell was the Bourne shell, named after its inventor Steven Bourne. This shell is known on the system as ''sh''. | The first major shell was the Bourne shell, named after its inventor Steven Bourne. This shell is known on the system as ''sh''. | ||
The first | The first widely used shell was the C shell, or ''csh'. This was written by Bill Joyas part of the BSD version of Unix. The C shell gets its name from the resemblance of the C programming language. | ||
The Bourne Again Shell | The Bourne Again Shell | ||
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[[Filenames, Wildcards and Pathname Expansion]] | [[Filenames, Wildcards and Pathname Expansion]] | ||
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Revision as of 13:56, 8 July 2010
History of Unix shells
The first major shell was the Bourne shell, named after its inventor Steven Bourne. This shell is known on the system as sh.
The first widely used shell was the C shell, or csh'. This was written by Bill Joyas part of the BSD version of Unix. The C shell gets its name from the resemblance of the C programming language.
The Bourne Again Shell
The Bourne Again shell was created for use in the GNU project. Bash was born on Sunday, 10 januari, 1988.