Bash
Overview
GNU Bash
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
The GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell.
Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym for the Bourne-Again SHell, a pun on Stephen Bourne, the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix shell sh, which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.
Bash is largely compatible with sh and incorporates useful features from the Korn shell ksh and the C shell csh. It is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools portion of the IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1). It offers functional improvements over sh for both interactive and programming use.
While the GNU operating system provides other shells, including a version of csh, Bash is the default shell. Like other GNU software, Bash is quite portable. It currently runs on nearly every version of Unix and a few other operating systems - independently-supported ports exist for MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows platforms.
What is a shell?
A Unix shell is both a command interpreter and a programming language. As a command interpreter, the shell provides the user interface to the rich set of GNU utilities. The programming language features allow these utilities to be combined. Files containing commands can be created, and become commands themselves. These new commands have the same status as system commands in directories such as /bin, allowing users or groups to establish custom environments to automate their common tasks.
Documentation
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
IRC general channel- irc://irc.libera.chat/bash
This is a GNU package:bash
Download
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.2.tar.gz
version 5.2
(stable)
released on 26 September 2022
OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/bash-5.2.tar.gz.sig
VCS Checkout
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/bash.gitCategories
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Chet Ramey | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| FTP | Download | https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ |
| Wikidata | General | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189248 |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/ | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash/ | |
| FTP | General | https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bash/ |
| General | https://translationproject.org/domain/bash.html | |
| Git | VCS Repository Webview | https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/ |
| Debian | Developer | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bash |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bash-announce/ | |
| Savannah | Developer | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bash/ |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bash/ | |
| Homepage | https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html |
Software prerequisites
About this entry
This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 27 September 2022.
