computing, Bash (short for "Bourne Again SHell") is an interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating...
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A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive...
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number of terms. Shells commonly present in Unix and Unix-like systems include the Korn shell, the Bourne shell, and GNU Bash. While a Unix operating system...
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typically be run with Bash or dash on Linux or other Unix-like systems; Bash itself is a free clone of Bourne. Work on the Bourne shell initially started...
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Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s. Initially a clone...
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The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended...
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using the Bourne shell, or a compatible shell, assumed to be in the /bin directory #! /bin/bash – Execute the file using the Bash shell #! /usr/bin/pwsh...
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List of command-line interpreters (section Unix-like)
served as a shell, and BASIC is also a general-purpose language. Almquist shell (ash) Bash (Unix shell) bash Bourne shell sh C shell csh Ch shell ch Debian...
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operating system shell or in a purpose-built program. Several command-line shells, such as Nushell, Xonsh, Bash (Unix shell), and Z shell, offer command-line...
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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob (Unix))
part of every Unix-like libc ecosystem and shell, including AT&T Bourne shell-compatible Korn shell (ksh), Z shell (zsh), Almquist shell (ash) and its...
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and the Bash shell, are also designed to be used on Unix-like systems. The Open Group owns the UNIX trademark and administers the Single UNIX Specification...
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Command-line completion (redirect from Shell completion)
possibilities the interpreter will rotate through. Unix shells, including Bash (the default shell in most Linux distributions) and ksh among many others...
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status information, the times system call is used instead. In a popular Unix shell Bash, time is a special keyword, that can be put before a pipeline (or single...
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In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation...
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freeing the command line for additional work with the shell. POSIX shells and other Unix shells allow background execution by using the & character at...
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Fish (friendly interactive shell; stylized in lowercase) is a Unix-like shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Fish is designed to be feature-rich...
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completed. The standard shell syntax for anonymous pipes is to list multiple commands, separated by vertical bars ("pipes" in common Unix verbiage). The pipeline...
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The PWB shell (also known as the Mashey shell) was a Unix shell. The PWB shell was a modified (and generally constrained to be upward-compatible) version...
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command-line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler...
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version 5.1, PowerShell Core is bundled with Windows Server 2016 Nano Server. A project named Pash, a pun on the widely known "bash" Unix shell, has been an...
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The restricted shell is a Unix shell that restricts some of the capabilities available to an interactive user session, or to a shell script, running within...
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film Don't Look Up Bash (name), including a list of persons with the name Bash (Unix shell), computer software and language The Bash (company), an event...
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Cd (command) (redirect from Cd (MS-DOS / Unix Command))
built-in for most Unix shells (Bourne, tcsh, Bash, etc.), Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell, and MS-DOS COMMAND.COM. In a shell, the change directory...
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Alias (command) (redirect from Alias (Unix shell))
command. The command is available in Unix shells, AmigaDOS, 4DOS/4NT, FreeDOS, KolibriOS, PowerShell, ReactOS, EFI shell, and IBM i. Aliasing functionality...
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The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley...
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standard program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that lists, edits and re-executes commands previously entered to an interactive shell. Its name is an...
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KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial...
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Pushd and popd (section Unix-like)
builtin commands in many shells, such as Bash, Command Prompt, PowerShell, C shell, tcsh, 4DOS, Hamilton C shell, KornShell, and FreeCOM. The stack of...
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directory of the shell that loaded it. BusyBox – Collection of Unix tools in single executable file Internal DOS command POSIX standard: Shell Commands Tansley...
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Dot (command) (redirect from Dot (Unix))
In a Unix shell, the full stop called the dot command (.) is a command that evaluates commands in a computer file in the current execution context. In...
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