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Bash - Shell of the GNU operating system

It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use; these include command line editing, unlimited size command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed arrays of unlimited size, and integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four. Bash can run most sh scripts without modification.

Obtaining

Web page http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html Source tarball http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-2.05b.tar.gz Source information http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/

Version 2.05 (stable) released on 2000-04-10 Version 2.05b (devel) released on 2002-07-17 Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later. This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User reference manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html; Printed user reference manual available from http://www.network-theory.co.uk/bash/manual/

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