In 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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Shellshock (software bug) (redirect from Bash bug)
bugs in the Unix Bash shell, the first of which was disclosed on 24 September 2014. Shellshock could enable an attacker to cause Bash to execute arbitrary...
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Ubuntu Bourne-Again shell (bash): written as part of the GNU Project to provide a superset of Bourne Shell functionality. This shell can be found installed...
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shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh. Zsh was created by Paul Falstad...
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of POSIX sh syntax, Bourne shell scripts can typically be run with Bash or dash on Linux or other Unix-like systems; Bash itself is a free clone of Bourne...
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Neofetch is a discontinued system information tool written in the Bash shell scripting language. By default, on the left side is a logo of the distribution...
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (redirect from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)
Only Ubuntu (with Bash as the default shell) was supported.[citation needed] WSL beta was also called "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" or "Bash on Windows". WSL...
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characters used to separate text into tokens. The value of IFS, (in the bash shell) typically includes the space, tab, and the newline characters by default...
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with a 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...
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Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line shell)
machine using ssh. Z shell is the default shell for macOS; Bash, tcsh, and the KornShell are also provided. Before macOS Catalina, Bash was the default. A...
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ChromeOS (redirect from Chrome shell)
Kenny Strawn, by entering the ChromeOS shell in developer mode, typing the command shell to access the bash shell, and finally entering the command update_engine_client...
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Interpreter directive (category Command shells)
intended for interactive use. An example would be #!/bin/bash, meaning run this script with the bash shell found in the /bin directory. Other systems or files...
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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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ash shell) A lightweight (92K) Bourne compatible shell. Great for machines with low memory, but does not provide all the extras of shells like bash, tcsh...
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original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989. He continued as the primary maintainer of Bash until at least early 1993...
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shells provides pattern-matching using glob patterns. Some shells (such as the C shell and Bash) support additional syntax known as alternation or brace...
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found in the original Bourne shell and its later counterpart Bash, and in the KornShell. In some cases a restricted shell is used in conjunction with a...
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Unix-like (category Unix shells)
devices. Many popular applications, such as the Apache web server and the Bash shell, are also designed to be used on Unix-like systems. The Open Group owns...
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up to 400 Gbps. The original version in 2014 exploited a flaw in the bash shell - the Shellshock software bug - to exploit devices running BusyBox. A...
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Time (Unix) (section Bash)
as a standalone program (such as GNU time) or as a shell builtin in most cases (e.g. in sh, bash, tcsh or in zsh). The total CPU time is the combination...
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Polyglot (computing) (section C, PHP, and Bash)
in C, but is a comment in both bash and PHP. "//" is a comment in both PHP and C and the root directory in bash. Shell redirection is used to eliminate...
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the user's web browser. The syntax resembles a POSIX compatible shell (such as Bash), but deviates in many ways # Variable assignment # # Set the variable...
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also be merged with the standard output and fed to the next process. The Bash shell can also merge standard error with |& since version 4.0 or using 2>&1...
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Aiello, Joey (April 1, 2016). "Bash for Windows: Why it's awesome and what it means for PowerShell". Windows PowerShell Blog. Microsoft. Archived from...
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Bracket (redirect from Tortoise shell brackets)
and Company. Newham, Cameron; Rosenblatt, Bill (1998). Learning the Bash Shell. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781565923478. Sobell, Mark G.; Seebach, Peter (2005)...
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applications to ArcaOS. A variety of Linux tools ship with ArcaOS such as the Bash shell and the GNU coreutils, while others are available through the ArcaOS package...
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Google Cloud Shell is an online, browser-based command-line environment provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is a Debian-based virtual machine...
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or shell variable). Bash, zsh, and fish have completion for all variable names. PowerShell has completions for environment variable names, shell variable...
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the KornShell from Bell Labs. The rc shell provides the feature as "pipeline branching" in Version 10 Unix, released in 1990. The Bash shell provided...
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MSYS2 environment provides a package manager (Pacman from Arch Linux), a bash shell, and other Unix programs. It uses a runtime library msys-2.0.dll (~20MB)...
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