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diff --git a/shells/bash3/DESCR b/shells/bash3/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7e21fbd3b4f --- /dev/null +++ b/shells/bash3/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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. + +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. + +This package contains the outdated version 3 of bash. |