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The History of the Shell
 

13.2. The History of the Shell

When AT&T software engineers Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were designing UNIX™, they wanted to create a way for people to interact with their new system.

Operating systems at that time came with command interpreters, which could take commands from the user and interpret them so that computers could use them.

as sh), created by S.R. Bourne. Since the creation of the Bourne shell, other shells have been developed, such as the C shell (csh) and the Korn shell (ksh).

the time.

The result was the Bourne Again Shell, or bash. Although your Red Hat Linux system includes several different shells, bash is the default shell for interactive users. You can learn more about bash by reading the bash man page (type man bash at a shell prompt).

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