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Bash Alive

Bash
KindProgramming language
Appeared1989
StatusAlive
CreatorBrian Fox / GNU Project
Familyshell
Sourcewww.gnu.org ↗

The Bourne-again shell — GNU's answer that became the world's login shell and the accidental standard for startup scripts everywhere.

Descended from Bourne shell
Influenced by C shell KornShell
Created by Brian Fox
Predecessors Bourne shell

Brian Fox's bash (1989) — Bourne Again SHell — is the GNU Bourne-compatible shell: arrays, brace expansion, command substitution, and the default login shell of most Linux systems.\n\nIt is probably the most-run program on Earth after libc; Shellshock (2014) revealed how much of the internet runs on it.

Sources

  1. gnu.org/software/bash/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)