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In functionality ''bash'' goes well beyond the original Bourne shells and closely matches the extensions of David Korn's "Korn shell" (''ksh'') but lacks built-in support for "associative arrays" and co-processes. However, ''bash'' also adds a number of interactive features drawn from Bill Joy's [[C SHell]] (including the many "bang expansion operators" for things like !! (expand to entire previous command), !-2 (expand to penultimate command), !$ (expand to last argument of previous command) etc).