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Revision as of 20:34, 13 January 2011
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.