Frequent Question: What Is the 4 Letter Acronym for the Default Linux Shell?
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What is the name of the default Linux operating system shell?

Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell, is by far the most widely used choice and it comes installed as the default shell in the most popular Linux distributions.

What is acronym of Bourne shell?

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym for the ‘ Bourne-Again SHell ‘, a pun on Stephen Bourne, the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix shell sh , which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.

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