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Document: bash
Title: Bash Manual Page
Author: Chet Ramey
Abstract:  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).
Section: Shells

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