What is Bash?

Bash can refer to two things:

• A computer program
• A shell scripting language

Bash – the computer program

Bash is a computer program that’s designed to take commands from users and do various things on the computer like manage processes, files, or devices.

Bash – the shell scripting language

To interact with the Bash program, you use the Bash shell language. For example, you might issue the following commands in the Bash language to tell the Bash program to show you the contents of a file named example.txt

cat example.txt