[[http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Bash|Bash]] is the GNU project's '''B'''ourne '''A'''gain '''SH'''ell.  It's the ''de facto'' standard shell on most GNU/Linux distributions, and therefore the first shell that most newcomers to Unix/Linux tend to see these days.

Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).

Bash is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

=== See Also ===

[[Bashism]]

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