The Shell Game
Many shells (command interpreters) have been developed for UNIX over the years. Most common are:
The Shell Game
Many shells (command interpreters) have been developed
for UNIX over the years. Most common are:
As you may infer from "seashell", "shelling corn", and
"born-again", UNIX
geeks are
addicted to bad puns. All shells offer many, many more
features than the standard DOS/Win shell.
BASH is standard with Linux, but all shells are
available, so the user has complete choice over which shell is to be
used at a given time within a session. A shell script (batch file)
often
explicitly
specifies which shell is to be used to execute it.