The Bash shell replaced the Bourne shell in Unix-based operating systems in 1989, and has become the standard since on both Mac OS X and almost all Linux systems.

On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — ex… ...

"The Unix shell has been around for more than half a century at this point," Nikos Vasilakis, assistant professor of computer science at Brown University in the US, told The Register.

Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it [Updated] Could allow attackers to execute code on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.

To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.

ITworld.com – Send in your Unix questions today! See additional Unix tips and tricks One of the most convenient ways to manipulate information in scripts is to store it in an array.

A critical vulnerability in the Bourne again shell, simply known as Bash and which is present in most Linux and UNIX distributions and Apple’s Mac OS X, has been discovered and administrators ...