Bourne Shell

The Bourne Shell is a UNIX shell upon which many shells are based; notably ksh and bash. (The other major tree of UNIX shells descend from csh)

Bourne Shell is an implementation of UNIX Shell. Other implementations of UNIX Shell.

A Bourne Shell script begins like this:

#!/bin/sh

This specifies which binary to use to interpret the script.

Computerworld just published an in-depth interview with Steve Bourne The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh which details the Bourne shell origins and design decisions.