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bash-5.3.9

GNU Bourne Again Shell

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Description

Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

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Ports path
shells/bash
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
Categories
shells
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