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<sect2><title>Contents of Bash</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &bash-contversion;.)</para>

<para>bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command
interpreter on Unix systems. The bash program reads from standard
input (the keyboard). A user types something and the program will evaluate
what he has typed and do something with it, like running a
program.</para>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bash, sh (link to bash) and
bashbug</para>

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