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Bash stands for “Bourne Again SHell,” and it is a Unix shell and command language. It is an open-source software and is the default shell for the Linux operating system and macOS’s Terminal application.

Bash is an interface that allows users to interact with an operating system by executing commands. It is a successor to the original Bourne shell (sh) and includes features from other shells like csh and ksh.

In Bash, you can run commands, execute scripts, manipulate files, perform text processing, and many other tasks

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