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{{implementation cat|UNIX Shell}}There are many [[UNIX Shell|UNIX Shells]] and most of them can be categorized into two families. For purposes of the Rosette Code, all examples are in Bourne-compatible syntax. The other family of shells, with a markedly different syntax, are ''csh'' and it's ''tcsh'' (Tenex C Shell) "clone." Common Bourne compatible shells include the original [[Bourne Shell]] (''/bin/sh'' on most versions of UNIX), the GNU [[Bourne Again SHell]] (''bash'' --- which is linked to ''/bin/sh'' on many distributions of [[Linux]], making it their default shell), the [[Korn Shell]] (''ksh''), the [[Public Domain Korn SHell]] (''pdksh''), the [[Almquist SHell]] (''ash'') and the [[Debian Almquist SHell]] (''dash'') and the [[Z SHell]] (''zsh'').
The original Bourne shell went through a number of revisions in the early years of UNIX, and support for some features varies considerably. By the time the SUSv3 (Single Unix Specification, version 3) features stablized, all versions of the various Bourne-compatible shells should support a common set of features. This is denoted in Rosette Code examples with the phrase: "SUSv3" features. The Korn shell (originally written by David Korn of AT&T) and its "public domain" clone offer extensions (such as co-processes, and "associative arrays" --- called "hash arrays" by Perl, "dictionaries" by Python, "maps" by Lua, etc).
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