Bourne shell
The Bourne shell is an interactive command interpreter and command programming language.
The bsh command runs the Bourne shell.
The Bourne shell can be run either as a login shell or as a subshell under the login shell. Only
the login command can call the Bourne shell as a login shell. It does this by
using a special form of the bsh command name: -bsh
. When called
with an initial hyphen (-
), the shell first reads and runs commands found in the
system /etc/profile file and your $HOME/.profile, if one
exists. The /etc/profile file sets variables needed by all users. Finally, the
shell is ready to read commands from your standard input.
If the File [Parameter] parameter is specified
when the Bourne shell is started, the shell runs the script file identified by the
File parameter, including any parameters specified. The script file specified
must have read permission; any setuid
and setgid
settings are
ignored. The shell then reads the commands. If either the -c or -s flag is used, do
not specify a script.