The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the Bourne shell, or a symbolic link or hard link to a compatible shell—even when other shells are used by most users.
the bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems it first appeared on version 7 unix as its default shell unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the bourne shell or a symbolic link or hard link to a compatible shell—even when other shells are used by most users