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When Richard Stallman decided to create a full replacement for the then-encumbered Unix systems, he knew that he would eventually have to have replacements for all of the common utilities, especially the standard shell, and those replacements would have to have acceptable licensing.Original computerworld.com.au link is dead: see also copies of original material at readthedocs.io, computerworld.com.au and the University of South Carolina.
In Linux, most users run bash because it is the most popular shell.
The Bourne Again Shell (bash) is the most common shell installed with Linux distributions.
Bash is by far the most popular shell and forms the default shell on Linux and Mac OSX systems.
When Richard Stallman decided to create a full replacement for the then-encumbered Unix systems, he knew that he would eventually have to have replacements for all of the common utilities, especially the standard shell, and those replacements would have to have acceptable licensing.Original computerworld.com.au link is dead: see also copies of original material at readthedocs.io, computerworld.com.au and the University of South Carolina.
When Richard Stallman decided to create a full replacement for the then-encumbered Unix systems, he knew that he would eventually have to have replacements for all of the common utilities, especially the standard shell, and those replacements would have to have acceptable licensing.Original computerworld.com.au link is dead: see also copies of original material at readthedocs.io, computerworld.com.au and the University of South Carolina.
Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the [GNU] General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License (or any later version).
"Bourne Again Shell" is a play on the name Bourne Shell, which was the usual shell on Unix.
Free Software Foundation employees have written and maintained a number of GNU software packages. Two notable ones are the C library and the shell. ... We funded development of these programs because the GNU Project was not just about tools or a development environment. Our goal was a complete operating system, and these programs were needed for that goal.
Birthdate: Sunday, January 10th, 1988. Initial author: Brian Fox
For a year and a half, the GNU shell was "just about done". The author made repeated promises to deliver what he had done, and never kept them. Finally I could no longer believe he would ever deliver anything. So Foundation staff member Brian Fox is now implementing an imitation of the Bourne shell.
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, and the concept of being "born again".
See test.c for GPL-2.0-or-later
When Richard Stallman decided to create a full replacement for the then-encumbered Unix systems, he knew that he would eventually have to have replacements for all of the common utilities, especially the standard shell, and those replacements would have to have acceptable licensing.Original computerworld.com.au link is dead: see also copies of original material at readthedocs.io, computerworld.com.au and the University of South Carolina.
Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the [GNU] General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License (or any later version).
For a year and a half, the GNU shell was "just about done". The author made repeated promises to deliver what he had done, and never kept them. Finally I could no longer believe he would ever deliver anything. So Foundation staff member Brian Fox is now implementing an imitation of the Bourne shell.
When Richard Stallman decided to create a full replacement for the then-encumbered Unix systems, he knew that he would eventually have to have replacements for all of the common utilities, especially the standard shell, and those replacements would have to have acceptable licensing.Original computerworld.com.au link is dead: see also copies of original material at readthedocs.io, computerworld.com.au and the University of South Carolina.
"Bourne Again Shell" is a play on the name Bourne Shell, which was the usual shell on Unix.
The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, and the concept of being "born again".
Birthdate: Sunday, January 10th, 1988. Initial author: Brian Fox
Free Software Foundation employees have written and maintained a number of GNU software packages. Two notable ones are the C library and the shell. ... We funded development of these programs because the GNU Project was not just about tools or a development environment. Our goal was a complete operating system, and these programs were needed for that goal.
In Linux, most users run bash because it is the most popular shell.
The Bourne Again Shell (bash) is the most common shell installed with Linux distributions.
Bash is by far the most popular shell and forms the default shell on Linux and Mac OSX systems.
