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Explain the advantages of Bourne Again Shell or bash?

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• Bash is the GNU shell
• 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 uses.
• Interactive usage includes 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. Bash can run most sh scripts without modification.

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