Bash

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Etymology[edit]

Short for Bourne-again shell, a pun on the name of the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen R. Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

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Bash

  1. (computing) The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
    Bash stands for “Bourne-again shell”.
  2. (computer languages) The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
  3. Shortening of Sebastian.

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