Answer Posted / tony
SH refers to Bourne Shell, which is someway the reference Shell to a lot of other Shells, and defintaly to the Bash Shell, which literally is : Bourne Again Shell. By this time and date (2015), Bash is to be preferred over Bourne, and Bourne is supposed to be limited too much ... but, still used a lot. Obviously, in a technical way, there's a lot of interesting commands that work only with Bash, not with Bourne (and presumingly, never the other way round). So, bottom line : Bourne is limited but very compatible, Bash is better but slightly limited. The latter largely depends on environments.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
Post New Answer View All Answers
What lives in a shell?
What happens on a system call?
What is a batch file used for?
I have to write Shells (Linux + Unix)for publishing packages and reports. Is it possible ? What are the differents executable programs ineed to call ?
Write the syntax for "if" conditionals in linux?
What is the difference between grep and egrep?
What is the use of echo in shell script?
When should shell programming/scripting not be used?
is this growing field and what is average package in this?
What is computer cli?
What are the four fundamental components of every file system on linux?
Why are there shells on the beach?
What are zombie processes?
What is the best shell scripting language?
How do I open the shell in cmd?