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Shells in Linux

Is the shell available in Linux same as UNIX. In other words someone let me know what are the shells available in Linux?
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Re: Shells in Linux

The shells available in linux are
ash shell
bash shell - which is the default Linux shell
kron shell
Z-shell called as zsh
But I think someone shells are available. I hope someone would put their knowledge on that.
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The shells available in linux are:
bash - Bourne-again shell
csh - C shell
jsh - Job control shell
ksh - Korn shell
rc - Plan 9 shell
rsh - Remote shell
sh - Bourne shell
tcsh - Popular extension of the C shell
zsh - Popular extension of the Korn shell

Of these generally Linux use bash shell as the default shell.

Hope to learn some more information about Linux shells in this discussion.
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