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GNU Bourne Again SHell

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.

Bash using the ls command

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  1.  Support for scripting
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ab1
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GNU Bourne Again SHell icon GNU Bourne Again SHell version 5.0.17(1)-release won't try to quote paths with spaces. This poor decision forces pretty pointless and trivial work to humans in so many places...

ab1

Try cd path with spaces insdead of cd "path with spaces" to see it yourself.

ab1

Try path to executable with spaces argument instead of "path to executable with spaces" argument to see it yourself.

daniel Arabis
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i love it! thanks god it's so greate

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What is GNU Bourne Again SHell?

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.

The improvements offered by BASH include:

  • Command line editing
  • Unlimited size command history
  • Job Control
  • Shell Functions and Aliases
  • Indexed arrays of unlimited size
  • Integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four