The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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the RUNCOM ancestry of Unix shells. The PWB shell or Mashey shell, sh, was an upward-compatible version of the Thompson shell, augmented by John Mashey...
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command-language macros. In 1971, Ken Thompson developed the Thompson shell in the first version of Unix. While simpler than the Multics shell, it contained some innovative...
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Scheme Shell. TENEX C shell (tcsh) Thompson shell (tsh) Toybox yash – Yet Another Shell, aims "to be the most POSIX-compliant shell in the world"; available...
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(and generally constrained to be upward-compatible) version of the Thompson shell with additional features to increase usability for programming. It was...
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Work on the Bourne shell initially started in 1976. Developed by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs, it was a replacement for the Thompson shell, whose executable...
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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he...
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for C++ Unix shell, a general command-line shell for Unix Bourne shell, a command-line shell for Unix Thompson shell, a command-line shell for Unix Sharp...
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Thompson also writes and edits the series Blood, Shells, & Roses for Arcana Studios. Thompson is also credited as Alex Thompson, Bart A. Thompson (usually...
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catalogs comparable aspects of notable operating system shells. Background execution allows a shell to run a command without user interaction in the terminal...
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Soft-shell crab is a culinary term for crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. Soft-shells are removed from the water...
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Brian Robert Thompson (July 10, 1974 – December 4, 2024), the CEO of the American health insurance company UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in Midtown...
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This is a list of the shell commands of the most recent version of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) – IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 which is part...
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Script (Unix) (section Bourne shell)
model examples: All shells related to Bourne shell (sh), for example Thompson shell (sh), Bash (bash), KornShell (ksh), and Z shell (zsh), allow the stdout...
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also common within the programmer subculture of hackers. For example, Ken Thompson noted during his 1983 Turing Award lecture that it is possible to add code...
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electron shell. Thus, the shell terminology is a misnomer as there is no correspondence between the valence shell and any particular electron shell in a given...
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Maintenance Corp. The company had no offices and is alleged to have been a shell company for paying the vendors providing services and supplies for Trump's...
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further is the possibility of deflection or yaw caused by advanced bunker-shell construction techniques. The first combat use of the GBU-57 MOP was during...
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build a sizable rocket arsenal, with more than 10,000 rockets and mortar shells fired in the current conflict. With Iran's help, Hamas has developed robust...
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arrived, so many of the artefacts from the collection are made from stone, shell, bone and bamboo. Prehistoric objects from the region include a bird-shaped...
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Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line shell)
and the first Multics shell was developed by Glenda Schroeder. The first Unix shell, the V6 shell, was developed by Ken Thompson in 1971 at Bell Labs and...
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v t e Silver Shell for Best Actor Francisco Rabal (1953) Enrique Diosdado (1954) No Award (1955) Otto Eduard Hasse / Alberto Closas (1956) Charles Vanel...
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is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometres (2–43 mi) away and whose trajectory...
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Cole, William (December 29, 2004). "Iraq-bound Guard troops entertained at Shell". Honolulu Advertiser. p. B3. Archived from the original on May 29, 2020...
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gun pods. Fragmentary rocket warheads create greater effects than cannon shells as each rocket creates a "thousand-round burst", delivering more projectiles...
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data". NPR. Retrieved April 15, 2025. Berulis said he noticed five PowerShell downloads on the system, a task automation program that would allow engineers...
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was designed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and publicly announced in November of 2009. It is syntactically similar...
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He also starred in: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) as Hunter S. Thompson, The Ninth Gate (1999) as Dean Corso, and Sleepy Hollow (1999) as Ichabod...
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largest California agricultural products by value were milk and cream, shelled almonds, and grapes. Farming-related sales more than quadrupled over the...
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200–1000 (2nd ed.). Blackwell Publishers. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-6312-2137-1.; Thompson, Glen L. (2005). "Constantius II and the First Removal of the Altar of...
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