Bourne Shell

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sceptreofjudah - 3 years

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sceptreofjudah

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http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-bourne-shell-1088.html

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For those of us who know that bash != sh

MarkofCain

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Atrujillo

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Tareas para la U

codewritinfool

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bittercoder

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Still use this shell on a few devices every month or so, though only rarely write shell scripts these days (mostly batch files, powershell scripts instead for windows-based machines).

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OK, so mostly this is now really bash under the hood, but I try to avoid bash-isms. The only "new" feature I use is shell functions. Been bit too many times...

jeremybowers

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Cut my teeth on it.

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