| Bash | … |
|---|---|
| Original author | Brian Fox |
| Developer | Chet Ramey |
| Release | 8 June 1989 |
| Stable release | 5.31 / 3 July 2025 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | • Linux • Unix-like • macOS • Windows • Android • Oracle Solaris |
| Platform | GNU |
| Available in | Multilingual (gettext) |
| Type | Shell (computing), Unix shell, command language |
| License | • v.4.0+: GPL-3.0-or-later 2 • v.1.11 – v.3.2: GPL-2.0-or-later 3 • v.0.99 – v.1.05: GPL-1.0-or-later 4 5 6 |
| Website | www.gnu.org/software/bash/ |
| Repository | • git .savannah .gnu .org /cgit /bash .git |
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Footnotes
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Chet Ramey (5 July 2025). “Bash-5.3-release available”. Retrieved 5 July 2025. ↩
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“GNU Bash”. Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Project. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2025. Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the[GNU] General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License (or any later version). ↩
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“bash-1.11”. oldlinux.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2025. See test.c for GPL-2.0-or-later ↩
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“BashFAQ/061: Is there a list of which features were added to specific releases (versions) of Bash?”. wooledge.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2025. ↩
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“bash-1.05”. oldlinux.org. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2025. ↩
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“Is there a way to download the presumably initial bash source bash-0.99?”. unix.stackexchange.com. Retrieved 8 August 2025. ↩