| 종류 | Bourne Shell (sh) | Bourne again shell (bash) | Enhanced C shell (tcsh) | C shell (csh) |
| 개발자 | Steve Bourne | Chet Ramey | Ken Greer Paul Placeway, et. al | Bill Joy |
| 경로 | /usr/bin/sh | /usr/bin/bash | /usr/bin/tcsh | /usr/bin/csh |
| 시작문자 | $ | $ | $ | % |
| Aliases | N | Y | Y | &Y |
| History | N | Y | Y | Y |
| 접근순서 | .profile | .bash_profile | .cshrc .login | .schrc .login |