Bourne Shell

Portable Shell Syntax is the scripting language syntax used by the System V Bourne shell. This syntax is compatible with the heirloom shell and is the syntax documented in most Unix books.

Bourne Shell
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.

See Also:	Bourne Shell on the HOPL

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Bourne Shell is an implementation of UNIX Shell. Other implementations of UNIX Shell.

The Bourne Shell is a UNIX shell upon which many shells are based; notably ksh and bash. (The other major tree of UNIX shells descend from csh)

A Bourne Shell script begins with a hashbang like this, that tells the operating system to use the Bourne compatible shell interpreter:

#!/bin/sh

Computerworld just published an in-depth interview with Steve Bourne The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh which details the Bourne shell origins and design decisions.