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Stephen R. Bourne

British computer scientist

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    Born 1944
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Updated 2026-06-19

Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.

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