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Unix shell

A Unix shell is a shell that provides a command-line user interface for a Unix-like operating system. A Unix shell provides a command language that can be used either interactively or for writing a shell script. A user typically works within a Unix shell via a terminal emulator; however, direct access via serial hardware connections or a Secure Shell are…

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Unix shell

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Triples77
Avg. degree1.98
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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

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shell unix shells default bourne written system user systems file distributed including control may read many features command configuration linux

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Unix shellis ashell that provides a command-line user interface for a Unix-like operating system0.90text
NIS or LDAPinstance ofpasswd file or in a distributed configuration system0.80text
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellThe Bourne0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellUnix0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellStephen Bourne0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellBell Labs0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellDistributed0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellUNIX Version0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellThe0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellALGOL0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellTraditionally0.60section
Unix shellrelated to Bourne shellBourne0.60section

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