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Bourne shell Superseded

Bourne shell
KindProgramming language
Appeared1979
StatusSuperseded
CreatorStephen Bourne / Bell Labs
Familyshell
Also known assh
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The shell that made shell a language — control flow, variables, and the here-doc; superseded as an implementation, immortal as the POSIX grammar.

Succeeded by KornShell Bash
Created by Stephen Bourne
Descendants KornShell Bash
Influenced Perl

Stephen Bourne's sh (1979) — the Bourne shell — made shell scripting a language: variables, control flow, functions, and the here-doc. It shipped with Version 7 Unix and became the standard.\n\nEvery /bin/sh is its descendant; POSIX standardized it, and bash/ksh/zsh are its dialects.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell