Linux Bash shell is the most popular shell. /bin/bash is the path and executable of the Bash shell. /bin/bash is a binary which is used in different ways to run and execute commands and scripts. Script File Interpreter #!/bin/bash In Linux and opensource world script files are very important. There are different type of scripting language used to write script files. As file extension is just a label for a script...
Bash is very popular Linux and Unix shell used system administrators. Even most of the users do not know that they are using bash shell because of it is provided by default in the operating system. There are different shell types supported by Linux, Unix and BSD. Korn shell is another but less popular shell. In this post we will compare bashand kshand try to show differences and similarities between...
Linux and Unix provides different flavors of command line interface. bashis the most popular and use one. But we have alternatives too. kshor Korn Shell is one of them. Kornshell is mainly developed for shell based application development. ksh provides better performance for shell script. Install Kornshell We can install Kornshell for most of the Linux, Unix and BSD operating systems. Here are some of them. Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
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Linux provides a lot of different type of shells. There are shells like bash, ksh, csh. But what non of them exist in a Linux or Unix system. The default shell for Linux and Unix systems is sh . This shell is called also dash because of its maintainers those works for Debian. We will call this as sh from now. Sh is by default installed and exist most of the Linux...
While using remote sessions we may need to know the type and version of the remote shell . Bash is popular but there may be different shells like sh, csh, ksh etc. Using $SHELL Variable Shells provides environment variables to give information about the shell and the environment. $SHELL environment variable can be used to get current she type. $SHELL variable information is not so reliable.
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$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash |
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