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History
50 related topics
Other shells
16 related topics
Overview
29 related topics
Configuration files
1 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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Topics to explore
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Overview
- Shell Shell (computing)
- Command-line Command-line interface
- User interface
- Unix-like
- Operating system
- Command language
- Interactively
- Shell script
- Terminal emulator
- Secure Shell
- Graphical shell
- Windowing system
- Linux distributions Linux distribution
- MacOS
- Logs in Log in
- Default Default (computer science)
- Passwd Passwd (file)
- NIS Network Information Service
- LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- Nested Nesting (computing)
- Variable Variable (computer science)
- Command substitution
- Filename wildcarding Wildcard character
- Stream piping Pipeline (Unix)
- Control flow structures Control flow
- Condition-testing Conditional (programming)
- Iteration
- Working directory context Working directory
- Here document
History
- Thompson shell
- Ken Thompson Ken Thompson (computer programmer)
- Bell Labs
- GLOB Glob (programming)
- Ancient UNIX
- Version 6 Unix
- Multics
- Glenda Schroeder
- RUNCOM
- Louis Pouzin
- PWB shell
- John Mashey
- Programmer's Workbench UNIX PWB/UNIX
- Environment variables Environment variable
- Bourne shell
- Path hashing C shell
- Stephen Bourne Stephen R. Bourne
- Variables Variable (programming)
- ALGOL 68
- Symbolic link
- Hard link
- Almquist shell
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- POSIX
- Busybox
- Debian Almquist shell
- Debian
- Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system)
- Bash Bash (Unix shell)
Configuration files
Other shells
- Es Es (Unix shell)
- Functional programming
- Friendly interactive shell
- PowerShell
- Object-oriented Object-oriented programming
- Qshell
- IBM i
- X/Open
- Rc Rc shell
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- Version 10 Unix
- Tom Duff
- Scsh
- Scheme Scheme (programming language)
- Wish Wish (Unix shell)
- Tcl/Tk
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Unix shell
Nodes101
Edges100
Triples77
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019802
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Unix shell
Top relations
related to Bourne shell · 35
Unix shell → ALGOL, Almquist, Bell Labs, Bell LabsPublic, Bourne, Bourne Shell, BSD-licensed, Busybox, But, Catalina, David Korn, Debian, Debian Almquist, Distributed, FreeBSD, GNU Project, GNU Readline, It's, Kali Linux, Korn
related to Other shells · 22
Unix shell → An, Bell Labs, Bourne, First, Friendly, IBM, Linux, Plan, Ports, POSIX, PowerShell, Qshell, Scheme Shell, Tcl/Tk, The, Tom Duff, Unix, Unix-like, Variations, Version
related to Early shells · 18
Unix shell → American, Ancient UNIX, Bell Labs, Glenda Schroeder, GLOBbing, It, Ken Thompson, Louis Pouzin, Multics, Multics Team, RUNCOM, Schroeder's Multics, The, Thompson, Though, Unix, Version, Versions
is a · 1
Unix shell → shell that provides a command-line user interface for a Unix-like operating system
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
shell unix shells default bourne written system user systems file distributed including control may read many features command configuration linux
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unix shell | is a | shell that provides a command-line user interface for a Unix-like operating system | 0.90 | text |
| NIS or LDAP | instance of | passwd file or in a distributed configuration system | 0.80 | text |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | The Bourne | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Unix | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Stephen Bourne | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Bell Labs | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Distributed | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | UNIX Version | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | The | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | ALGOL | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Traditionally | 0.60 | section |
| Unix shell | related to Bourne shell | Bourne | 0.60 | section |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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