Bourne shell

(sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter

shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne

of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for

interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still

widely used for writing shell scripts.

There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]

ash is a Bourne Shell clone.

["Unix Time-Sharing System: The Unix Shell", S.R. Bourne,

Bell Sys Tech J 57(6):1971-1990 (Jul 1978)].