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>2.1. What is Bash?</H1
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>Descended from the Bourne Shell, Bash is a GNU product, the
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>ell." It's the standard command line interface on
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most Linux machines. It excels at interactivity, supporting command line
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editing, completion, and recall. It also supports configurable prompts -
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most people realize this, but don't know how much can be done. </P
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