The shell used by the standard Bell Labs UNIX.
A command interpreter. As of the HP-UX 10.0 release, the OSF POSIX shell replaces the Korn Shell and Bourne Shell. Thus, /usr/bin/sh will be the POSIX shell. However, /usr/old/bin/sh will still contain the Bourne shell.
One of the UNIX operating system's standard command line interpreters.
One of the shells available in the Unix operating system. The Bourne shell was developed by AT&T.
A version of the Unix shell developed by Steven Bourne from AT&T Bell Labs. It is referred to as sh.
A UNIX system shell, named after its author, Steven R. Bourne. To start a Bourne shell from the command line, type sh and press Enter.
A shell that is the ancestor of the standard SVR4 shell, named after its author, Steven Bourne. A widely used, general-purpose programming language, developed by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s. Much of UNIX is written in C.
The original standard user interface to UNIX that supported limited programming capability.
The standard shell (`/bin/sh') on Unix and Unix-like systems, originally written by Steven R. Bourne. Many shells (Bash, ksh, pdksh, zsh) are generally upwardly compatible with the Bourne shell.
the section called “Shell types
The Bourne shell, or sh, was the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7, and replaced the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name, sh. It was developed by Stephen Bourne, of AT&T Bell Laboratories, and was released in 1977 in the Version 7 Unix release distributed to colleges and universities. It remains a popular default shell for Unix accounts.
