bash (The Bourn Again SHell) - Shell of the GNU operating system.

Project Source code pages
The BASH Home Page
Mac OS X package built by Chris Roberts
Version: v2.05


Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.

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. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.


Version :
2.05 stable released 17 Mar 2001
GNU :
This is a GNU package.
Source languages :
C
Maintainer :
Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu>
Developers :
Source code :
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash
Redhat packages (rpm) :
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/bash.html
Darwin OSX Packages (pkg) :
http://osx.zarahemla.com/software/bash/
Documentation :
User reference manual from http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/index.html
Web page :
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
User's help mailing list :
bug-bash@gnu.org
User's help newsgroup :
gnu.bash.bug
Announcement mailing list :
bug-bash@gnu.org
Announcement newsgroup :
gnu.bash.bug
Development discussion mailing list :
bug-bash@gnu.org
Development discussion newsgroup :
gnu.bash.bug
Bug report mailing list :
bug-bash@gnu.org
Interface :
Command Line or Interactive
License :
GPL