B.1. The Shells Compared

Feature
Bourne
C
TC
Korn
Bash
Aliases
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Advanced Pattern Matching
no
no
no
yes
yes
Command-Line Editing
no
no
yes
yes^[*]
yes
Directory Stacks (pushd, popd)
no
yes
yes
no
yes
Filename Completion
no
yes^[*]
yes
yes
yes
Functions
yes
no
no
yes
yes
History
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Job Control
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
Key Binding
no
no
yes
no
yes
Prompt Formatting
no
no
yes
no
yes
Spelling Correction
no
no
yes^[*]
no
yes^[]

^[*] not a default setting; must be set by the user.

^[] cdspell is a shopt option set to correct minor spelling errors in directory names when cd is used.

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