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C shell

Unix shell

SoftwareUnix shell programming language command line interface languageQ1064516

Also known as csh · tcsh · csh.1 · csh(1) · Csh

Developer: Bill Joy
Founded: 1978
Written in: C
License: 3-clause BSD License
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Sources
1.bxr.su/n/bin/csh/csh.c
2.bxr.su/o/bin/csh/csh.c
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Operating system: BSD
, GNU/Linux

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The C shell is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s. It has been widely distributed, beginning with the 2BSD release of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) which Joy first distributed in 1978. Other early contributors to the ideas or the code were Michael Ubell, Eric Allman, Mike O'Brien and Jim Kulp.

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Influenced by: C
Followed by: tcsh
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1.“tcsh-6.19.00 – extended C-shell with many useful features (Canadian English)”openbsd.su/ports/shells/tcshRetrieved 2015-12-24
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Replaced by: tcsh
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1.bxr.su/f/bin/csh/Makefile
2.bxr.su/d/bin/csh/Makefile
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Short name: csh
Media type: application/x-csh
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1.Stated in Encyclopedia of graphics file formats
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Has use: Unix shell
Copyright status: copyrighted
Creator: Bill Joy

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