Bourne shell


Bourne shell

[′bu̇rn ‚shel] (computer science) The original Unix shell.

Bourne shell

(sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpretershell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourneof Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded forinteractive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but stillwidely used for writing shell scripts.

There were even earlier shells, see glob. ash is a Bourne Shell clone.

["Unix Time-Sharing System: The Unix Shell", S.R. Bourne,Bell Sys Tech J 57(6):1971-1990 (Jul 1978)].

Bourne shell

The original command line processor for Unix. See C shell, Korn shell, bash shell and Unix.