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Bourne shell

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope
bourne shell

The Bourne shell was first developed by Steven Bourne at AT&T Bell Labs in 1977 and used for scripting. The Bourne shell is executed at the Linux or Unix prompt by running the bsh or sh command.

Bash, Korn, Operating system terms, Shell

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