What are the different shells available?

Answer Posted / subbareddy

Bourne-Again shell (bash) -- Written as part of the GNU
project to provide a superset of Bourne Shell
functionality.
Debian Almquist shell (dash) -- Dash is a modern
replacement for ash in Debian.
Korn shell (ksh) -- Written by David Korn, while at Bell
Labs.
Z shell (zsh) -- considered as the most complete (read: the
most features) shell: it is the closest thing that exists
to a superset of sh, ash, bash, csh, ksh, and tcsh.
[citation needed]
Busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems,
include a shell.

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