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-Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne
-Again SHell, an interactive shell with Bourne shell syntax (/bin/sh);
-but also with interactive command line editing, job control on
-architectures that support it, Csh-like history features and brace
-expansion, and a slew of other stuff.  For more information on the
-features of Bash that are new to this type of shell, see the file
-`documentation/features.texi'.  There is also a processed DVI file
-there, as well as a large man page.
+Bash 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.
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+It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and
+interactive use; these include command line editing, unlimited size
+command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed
+arrays of unlimited size, and integer arithmetic in any base from two
+to sixty-four. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without
+modification.