Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
What Is Bash (Bourne-Again Shell)
This section provides a quick introduction of Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) which extended Bourne shell with features based on ideas from other Unix shells.
What Is Bash (Bourne-Again Shell)? - Bash is a Unix shell introduced by Brian Fox in 1987. Bash is an extension of the Bourne shell introduced by Stephen Bourne in 1977. Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer of Bash in 1990.
Bash adds many new features to the Bourne shell based ideas from the Korn shell and the C shell:
The picture below shows the cover page of the book, "An Introduction to the C shell" by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox:
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
►1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
►What Is Bash (Bourne-Again Shell)
Bash Shell Script File Examples
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs