What does Korn and Bourne have to do with UNIX to a non-programmer who is trying to understand some of this stuff?

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They are both UNIX shells, that is some kind of old DOS environments on older PCs, but just doing similar things in UNIX. Both provide opportunities for scripting and doing other admin work in the UNIX environment. They differ slightly, and basically are about the same thing wrapped in different vendors presentations- if memory serves me well, Korn comes with Sun/Solaris ...and is supposed to be more up to date.

Provided with Linux (which is quite like Unix) is the Bash shell which is derived from the Bourne shell and is a superset of it. See the link below for some more information.

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