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futurist 03-19-2003 09:56 PM

What is 'Bash'
 
Sometimes at command line I saw the word bash, what is it ?

nakkaya 03-19-2003 11:21 PM

thats the command prompt u are using :)

nakkaya 03-19-2003 11:21 PM

name of the shell

moses 03-19-2003 11:33 PM

Bourne Again SHell

trickykid 03-20-2003 08:57 AM

We've actually got a lot of common terms in our glossary section, if you take a look here, bash is actually mentioned: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ryid=20&long=1

orange400 03-20-2003 10:10 AM

But remember, bash is just the shell. It's the program that accesses the unix command prompt, not the command prompt itself. Think of it like running an MS-DOS window in windows. The window only houses dos.


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