BOURNE SHELL

Specialty Definition: BOURNE SHELL

Domain	Definition
Computing	Bourne shell (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?] ash is a Bourne Shell clone. ["Unix Time-Sharing System: The Unix Shell", S.R. Bourne, Bell Sys Tech J 57(6):1971-1990 (Jul 1978)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: Bourne shell

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The Bourne shell, or sh, is the original and perhaps the simplest Unix shell, developed by Stephen Bourne. It remains a popular default shell for Unix accounts. The binary program of Bourne shell is located at /bin/sh on most Unix systems.

Crosswords: BOURNE SHELL

Specialty definitions using "BOURNE SHELL": C shell ♦ internal field separators ♦ RC ♦ sh ♦ -SH. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BOURNE SHELL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bourne shell	18
bourne shell programming	2
bourne shell script	2
bourne shell scripting	2
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Anagrams: BOURNE SHELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-l-l-n-o-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: bullhorns, resoluble.
	-3 letters: bluenose, bullhorn, bullnose, busheler, nebulose, sullener.
	-4 letters: blusher, boreens, boulles, bournes, enrobes, enrolls, hellers, helloes, hollers, hullers, hulloes, lobules, rehouse, reshone, roselle, roubles, sheller, sneller, soluble, unhorse, unreels, unrobes, unrolls, unshell, unsober.
	-5 letters: belles, blouse, boners, boreen, boules, boulle, bourne, bourns, bourse, bushel, busher, enrobe, enroll, enrols, ensoul, ensure, enures, heller.
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