Linux Shell and Command

What Is the Shell?

When we speak of the command line, we are really referring to the shell. The shell is a program that takes keyboard commands and passes them to the operating system to carry out. Almost all Linux distributions supply a shell program from the GNU roject called bash. The name is an acronym for bourne-again shell, a reference to the fact that bash is an enhanced replacement for sh, the original Unix shell program written by Steve Bourne.

Terminal Emulators

When using a graphical user interface (GUI), we need another program called a terminal emulator to interact with the shell. If we look through our desktop menus, we will probably find one

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