Bourne Shell - Usage

Usage

The Bourne shell was once standard on all branded Unix systems, although historically BSD-based systems had many scripts written in csh. Bourne shell scripts can typically be run with bash or dash on GNU/Linux or other Unix-like systems.

On many Linux systems, /bin/sh is a symbolic or hard link to Bash. However, for efficiency, some Linux systems (such as Ubuntu) link /bin/sh to dash instead.

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