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GNU Bash

Functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use
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What is GNU Bash?

The Bourne Again SHell is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.
GNU Bash is a tool in the Shells category of a tech stack.

Who uses GNU Bash?

Companies
206 companies reportedly use GNU Bash in their tech stacks, including E-Commerce, Craftbase, and Foretag.

Developers
1058 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GNU Bash.

GNU Bash Integrations

Codecov, Homebrew, AWK, iTerm2, and Zsh (Z shell) are some of the popular tools that integrate with GNU Bash. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with GNU Bash.
Pros of GNU Bash
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Customizable
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Powerful scripting language
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Widely adopted
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Cross platform
Decisions about GNU Bash

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GNU Bash in their tech stack.

Out of curiosity, when my coding instructor for Python did some commands on his computer, he told me learning any sort of terminal command interface (e.g. GNU Bash, PowerShell, Zsh ) will make me understand systems and how computers work and would make me know the basics of systems programming (although I am more into web development). I immediately went curious, out of my time, and looked up some command line interfaces to learn. It gave me bash, shell, zsh, powershell, etc. All these are really confusing, and they all seem the same. I want to be a terminal dweller, so which of the terminal related things should I learn? I think Bash, since it can replace Powershell on Windows, and has all the Linux/macOS systems.

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GNU Bash's Features

  • Command line editing
  • Unlimited size command history
  • Job Control
  • Shell Functions and Aliases
  • Indexed arrays of unlimited size
  • Integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four

GNU Bash Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GNU Bash?
JavaScript
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Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
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GNU Bash's Followers
704 developers follow GNU Bash to keep up with related blogs and decisions.