StevenBourne wrote the most widely disseminated of the UnixShells: /bin/sh
Many of the Unix startup scripts are written for this shell. BourneShell scripts are the most portable across architectures, vendors, and even some non-Unix OperatingSystems.
It is said that sh has the LambdaNature. Similarities to the untyped LambdaCalculus:
- Single data type (character stream)
- Programs are composition of functions (pipe cells)
Today, the most commonly-used implementation of the BourneShell is its descendant, the BourneAgainShell.
See also HereDocument
The Bourne Shell allows one to do anything that one can do onn a GUI (except, of course, look at images (unless you call AsciiArt images)). CategoryUnix