The Unix Command Language (First ever paper published on the Unix shell) (1976)

The UNIX Command Language (1976)

The UNIX Command Language is the first ever paper published on the Unix shell by Ken Thompson.

This typed copy was published in Structured Programming (Infotech state of the art report).

The original scanned images of the paper were obtained by wesleyneo and published at archive.org on 10 Feb 2018 with permission from Ken Thompson. A copy of the original scanned images are also available in the img directory of this repository.

The combined PDF document is available at the following places:

The document has also been transcribed to text format by wesleyneo and then converted to Markdown format by me. The Markdown format document is available here:

Both the combined PDF document and the Markdown format text document are shared here as well as at other places on the Internet with permission from Ken Thompson.

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