- A shell, or command-line interpreter, for computer operating systems. Developed by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs, it was a replacement for the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name (
sh). The Bourne shell was released in 1979, as part of Version 7 Unix. ← Wikipedia
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