BASH(1) BASH(1)
NAME
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
SYNOPSIS
bash [options] [file]
COPYRIGHT
Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2005 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
DESCRIPTION
Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the
standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C
shells (ksh and csh).
Bash is intended to be a conformant implementation of the Shell and Utilities portion of the
IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1). Bash can be configured to be POSIX-conformant
by default.
OPTIONS
In addition to the single-character shell options documented in the description of the set
builtin command, bash interprets the following options when it is invoked:
-c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from string. If there are argu-
ments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with
$0.
-i If the -i option is present, the shell is interactive.
