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File:          bash-2.0-bin.tgz
Description:bash version 2.0 (binaries)
Keywords:      shell bourne gnu
Version:       2.0
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This text is a brief description of the features that are present in
the Bash shell.

This is Edition 2.0, last updated 25 November 1996,
of `The GNU Bash Reference Manual',
for `Bash', Version 2.0.


Bash Features
*************

   Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some
features that only appear in Bash.  Some of the shells that Bash has
borrowed concepts from are the Bourne Shell (`sh'), the Korn Shell
(`ksh'), and the C-shell (`csh' and its successor, `tcsh'). The
following menu breaks the features up into categories based upon which
one of these other shells inspired the feature.

What is Bash?
=============

   Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear
in the GNU operating system.  The name is an acronym for the
`Bourne-Again SHell', a pun on Steve Bourne, the author of the direct
ancestor of the current Unix shell `/bin/sh', which appeared in the
Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.

   Bash is an `sh'-compatible shell that incorporates useful features
from the Korn shell `ksh' and the C shell `csh'.  It is ultimately
intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and
Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).  It offers functional
improvements over `sh' for both interactive and programming use.

   While the GNU operating system will include a version of `csh', Bash
will be the default shell.  Like other GNU software, Bash is quite
portable.  It currently runs on nearly every version of Unix and a few
other operating systems - independently-supported ports exist for OS/2
and Windows NT.

This archive contains binaries only.
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