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BASH
Strap in for a thrill ride! Bash, short for the Bourne-Again Shell, is the GNU Project’s Unix shell and command language that was originally released in 1989 by Chet Ramey. It was the free software replacement for the Version 7 Unix Borne shell (sh) released in 1977. This suspended the Mashey shell used with Version 4 Unix in 1973, which itself was a replacement of the Thompson shell (sh) that was written by Ken Thompson himself for the original 1971 Unix.
In most distros, if you run echo $0 in the terminal, you’ll likely get the output of Bash, as that’s the base command language in Debian and thus Ubuntu and beyond. There are alternatives, such as Fish, which offers advanced tab completion, search as you type autosuggestion, syntax highlighting and global variables.