C Shell Bourne Shell Return to the Academic Services Documents Introduction A shell is the interface between HP-UX and the user. The different types of shells available on frank are Bourne, C, Korn, Posix, and Key shell. Bourne shell is the oldest shell and is a command interpreter. Users comfortable with a command-line driven shell can use Bourne shell.
C shell is like C programming language.
A C programmer can start with C shell. Korn shell is faster, compatible with most Bourne shell features, and has interactive features like C shell. Key shell is a softkey interface to the Korn shell and is comfortable to new users. However, it does not work properly in our environment and it will not be discussed in this document. A feature allowing commands to be stored in a buffer, then modified and reused.