The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. 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. Wikipedia
Created Year: 1979Developed by: Stephen R. Bourne
Operating systems: Q11368
Named after: Stephen R. Bourne
Aliases: sh, /bin/sh
Wikidata: Q844595
Influenced: AWK
Language types: command line interface language
Bourne shell Influence Network
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