The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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the RUNCOM ancestry of Unix shells. The PWB shell or Mashey shell, sh, was an upward-compatible version of the Thompson shell, augmented by John Mashey...
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Developed by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs, it was a replacement for the Thompson shell, whose executable file had the same name—sh. It was released in 1979...
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command-language macros. In 1971, Ken Thompson developed the Thompson shell in the first version of Unix. While simpler than the Multics shell, it contained some innovative...
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Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he...
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(and generally constrained to be upward-compatible) version of the Thompson shell with additional features to increase usability for programming. It was...
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for C++ Unix shell, a general command-line shell for Unix Bourne shell, a command-line shell for Unix Thompson shell, a command-line shell for Unix Sharp...
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Thompson also writes and edits the series Blood, Shells, & Roses for Arcana Studios. Thompson is also credited as Alex Thompson, Bart A. Thompson (usually...
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sh Shell programming Mandatory Shell, the standard command language interpreter Version 7 AT&T UNIX (in earlier versions, sh was either the Thompson shell...
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Soft-shell crab is a culinary term for crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. Soft-shells are removed from the water...
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