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The Shell

The Shell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_%28computing%29

Unix Shells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell

Origin of the Bourne Shell

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/n.u-w.mashey.html
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/index.html#origins

Man pages for early Thompson shell

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/index.html#origins

Bourne shell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/unix/docs/sh.txt
Introductory tutorial by Steven Bourne

Korn shell

http://www.kornshell.com/info/
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/korn.html
Shell history by David Korn

Korn shell 93:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/lj/

Bash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASH
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/FAQ

C-Shell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell

Tcsh

http://www.tcsh.org/FAQ

PD-ksh

http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/pdksh-man.html
man page

Shell man pages

sh: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v7/ (Bourne shell)
bash: http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash
tcsh: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/csh.1.html
csh: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0210/6m6nb7m71?a=view
zsh: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/zsh_toc.html

POSIX 1003.2 standard

http://www.unixguide.net/unix/bash/A9.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

Standardizations

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/

Shell command language

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html

Shell and utilities

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/xcu.html

Csh Programming Considered Harmful (1995)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Z Shell

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsh

Metacharacters

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=Tutorial&pageid=19
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Metacharacter

Microsoft Windows Services for Unix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_for_UNIX
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx

Configuration files

http://www.dotfiles.com/

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