Bourne shell

The Bourne shell was not as friendly for interactive use.

Earlier versions of the Bourne shell did not have getopts.

Bash has certain features that the traditional Bourne shell lacks.

For example, it is possible to expose a bourne shell process to remote computers.

In this model, scripts would only behave as other commands if called from within a Bourne shell.

Historical C source code for the Bourne shell using mac.

"Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is.

It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler.

Bash's syntax has many extensions which the Bourne shell lacks.

Aliases were absent from the Bourne shell, which had the more powerful facility of functions.

Features of the Bourne shell versions since 1979 include:

Over the years, the Bourne shell was enhanced at AT&T.

Bash incorporates features from the Bourne shell, csh, and ksh.

In Bourne shell, operator means "less than".

In Bourne shell (and many other shells), less-than sign is used to redirect input from a file.

The facility was then incorporated into the Bourne shell, and exists in most modern Unix shells.

A shell archive is a collection of files that can be unpacked by the Bourne shell.

Major differences between KornShell and the traditional Bourne shell include:

The Bourne shell has been criticized for its shortcomings compared to the C shell.

A scripting command in the Bourne shell and its derivatives (bash)

Every Unix-like system has at least one shell compatible with the Bourne shell.

Bash can perform integer calculations without spawning external processes, unlike the Bourne shell.

Since it predates the Bourne shell, its existence causes an inconsistency in the loop syntax.

The individual members of "The Traditional Bourne Shell Family"

"$PS1": the environment variable in the Bourne shell and variants which specifies the command prompt.