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Unix. Submitted by: Jithin shaji 20D018M.
Types of shell. Unix shell is an interface provided by the operating system to the user to use its functionality.Shell is just a program/application which gets invoked when a user logs into the system and will keep on running at the background till you logout. In Unix, there are various kind of shells available for you to choose from and you can switch between the different shells once you have found out if they are available. The most popular shells available in Unix are: Bourne shell C shell Tc shell Korn shell Bourn again shell.
Bourne shell. BOURNE SHELL ( sh ):This is the original Unix shell written by Steve Bourne of Bell Labs. It is available on all this systems. This shell does not have the interactive facilities provided by modern shells such the C shell and Korn shell. The Bourne shell does provide an easy to use language with whis you can write shell scripts.
C shell. CSHELL [ csh ]This shell was written at the University of California, Berkeley. It provides a C-like language with which to write shell scripts-hence its name. It was originally derived from the 6th Edition Unix/bin/ sh (which was the Thompson shell), the predecessor of the Bourne shell. Its synta is modeled after the C programming language. The C shell added many feature improvements over the Bourne shell, such as aliases and command history. Today, the original C shell is not in wide use on Unix it has been superseded by other shells such as the Tenex C shell ( tesh ).
Tc shell. TCSHELL ( tesh )It is compatible with the Cshell ( csh ). It is essentially the C shell with command line completion.command -line editing, and a few other features. The built-in command history displays thepreviously -entered commands. It also provides auto-completion of file names and variables at the command line..
Kornshell. KORN SHELL ( ksh )This shell was written by David Korn of Bell labs. It is now provided as the standard shell on Unix systems. It provides all the features of the C and TC shells such as command history along with a shell programming language similar to that of the original Bourne shell. The main advantage of ksh over the traditional Unix shell is in its use as a programming language. Since its conception, several features were gradually added, while maintaining strong backwards compatibility with the Bourne shell. It is the most efficient shell..
Bourne again shell. Bash is a Unix shell written for the GNU Project. The name of the actual executable is bash Its name is an acronym for Bourne-again shell, an early and important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, Bash was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. Bash is the default shell on most Linux systems as well as on Mac OS X and it can be run on most Unix-like operating systems..
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