Bash Basic Kit

Bash (Bourne-again shell) is a Unix shell written for the GNU Project. The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, and the concept of being “born again“. Bash was created in 1987 by Brian Fox. In 1990 Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer.

Bash is the default shell on most systems built on top of the Linux kernel as well as on Mac OS X. It has also been ported to Microsoft Windows using the POSIX emulation provided by Cygwin, to MS-DOS by the DJGPP project and to Novell NetWare.

It can be programet through scripts (shell scripts or bash scripts)(.sh file extension).

Example script.sh:

#!/bin/bash

echo -e “\n\tHello World!\n”

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scriptPath=`dirname $0`