On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Neeraj Manral wrote:
> Can some one explain me the significance of bash?
>
> Is it some thing like doskey?
OOPS. nope !! bash (Bourne Again SHell) is a shell, which provides an
interface for performing many tasks in a UNIX system. A shell is basically
a command language interpretter, which reads your input, executes the
commands & provides the output.
doskey is a program to keep track of the commands you type, so that you
can recall the commands (thro' up & down arrow keys). bash can provide
this functionality too, but that's simply a sub-set of the large
functionality provided by bash.
Explaining bash is beyond the scope here. I suggest you read 'man bash' or
get a good 'introduction to unix/linux' book !
Sreeji
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