Origins
The shell was designed as a replacement for the Mashey shell.
Among the primary goals were:
- To allow shell scripts to be used as filters.
- To provide programmability including control flow and variables.
- Control over all input/output file descriptors.
- Control over signal handling within scripts.
- No limits on string lengths when interpreting shell scripts.
- Rationalize and generalize string quoting mechanism.
- The environment mechanism. This allowed context to be established at startup and provided a way for shell scripts to pass context to sub scripts (processes) without having to use explicit positional parameters.
Read more about this topic: Bourne Shell
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“Lucretius
Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
smiling carves dreams, bright cells
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