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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[Source: BASH GNU
project]
