Bourne shell

(sh, Shellish).

The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978.

sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts.

There were even earlier shells, see glob.

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ash is a Bourne Shell clone.

["Unix Time-Sharing System: The Unix Shell", S.R. Bourne, Bell Sys Tech J 57(6):1971-1990

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