Explore some of the more useful but perhaps more esoteric capabilities of the Bash shell with the blog post Ten More Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. It is a followup to the highly visible post by the same author on Ten Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. Modern shells like Bash, Ksh, and Zsh have over four decades of developent and refinement, making them powerful, flexlble, and fast user interfaces for efficient work — not just excellent scripting languages for automation.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:16AM
If that was really how the term "shell" was derived, it makes it a portmanteau of "shit" and "hell".
Could be worse. Could have been a bit of oil company propaganda, I mean, imagine if the languages Perl, Python, and PHP were instead named Chevron, Exxon, and BP.