The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems.
The Bourne shell was the default shell for Version 7 Unix. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the Bourne shell, or a symbolic link or hard link to a compatible shell—even when other shells are used by most users.
Developed by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs, it was a replacement for the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name—sh. It was released in 1979 in the Version 7 Unix release distributed to colleges and universities. Although it is used as an interactive command interpreter, it was also intended as a scripting language and contains most of the features that are commonly considered to produce structured programs.
It gained popularity with the publication of The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike—the first commercially published book that presented the shell as a programming language in a tutorial form.
The Bourneshell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. The Bourneshell was the default shell for Version 7 Unix. Unix-like...
its standard shell as a strict subset of the Korn shell, an enhanced version of the Bourneshell. From a user's perspective the Bourneshell was immediately...
associated with a number of terms. Shells commonly present in Unix and Unix-like systems include the Korn shell, the Bourneshell, and GNU Bash. While a Unix...
announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial development was based on Bourneshell source code. Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike...
and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourneshell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh...
Initially a clone of the System V.4 variant of the Bourneshell, it replaced the original Bourneshell in the BSD versions of Unix released in the early...
as the sequence 0x7D 0x5D, and 0x7E is transmitted as 0x7D 0x5E. In Bourneshell (sh), the asterisk (*) and question mark (?) characters are wildcard...
10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourneshell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler. It was created by Tom Duff, who...
with &, similar to Bourneshell. It offers quoting and backslash escapes, though the single quotes work differently from Bourneshell. As a result of the...
compared to Bourneshell (also known as sh), the then-dominant shell written by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs. This example illustrates the C shell's more conventional...
Unix (1979), the PWB shell was superseded by the Bourneshell. The PWB shell was the standard shell for PWB/UNIX, circa 1975–78., but did not run on any...
up Bourne or bourne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bourne may refer to: Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town Bourne Abbey Bourne railway station Bourne (electoral...
September 2005. MSYS (a contraction of "Minimal System") was introduced as a Bourneshell command line interpreter system with the aim of better interoperability...
Integration, University of Michigan. Retrieved 2012-12-20. "bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell". read -s Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters...
because it is a valid shell script, and executing it will recreate the files. To extract the files, only the standard Unix Bourneshell sh is usually required...
sizeof(type-name) Cast: (type-name) cast-expression In the Unix shell (Bash/BourneShell), e.g., the following operators are unary: Pre and Post-Increment:...
operating systems (Fedora, Debian, etc.) The tool has been written in Bourneshell, to allow for portability. It can run on almost all UNIX-derived systems...
for C++ Unix shell, a general command-line shell for Unix Bourneshell, a command-line shell for Unix Thompson shell, a command-line shell for Unix Sharp...
first appeared in the Bourneshell, introduced with Version 7 Unix in 1979, and has remained a characteristic of all later Unix shells. The feature has since...
(Examples: IBM 1130, SDS 9XX, PDP-8) Return type Exit status in the Bourneshell, only integers in the range 0-255 may be returned "return Statement (C)"...
modern newsreaders. He contributed the code that allowed to convert the BourneShell from using the non-portable sbrk to a portable malloc based implementation...
is found in the original Bourneshell and its later counterpart Bash, and in the KornShell. In some cases a restricted shell is used in conjunction with...
script (which has no dependencies other than the presence of a Bourne-compatible shell), and then a make program. They do not need to have the Autotools...
the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourneshell (sh), C shell (csh), tcsh (tcsh), KornShell (ksh), Bourne Again Shell (bash), and Z shell (zsh), among...
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