Re: terminology/concept questions
I appreciate your response.
Another question or so:
1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a
shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program
generation capabilities? another perhaps for graphics of some sort?
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:
> Shells are command interperters to the kernel. Users can execute commands
> from a shell at the prompt, like: ls, uptime, cp, rm...
>
> The shell in returns takes our input, parses it, and hands instructions to
> the kernel to execute.
>
> user --> shell --> kernel
>
> Much like a graphical interface (windows) interperts to shell commands:
>
> user --> gui --> shell --> kernel
>
> Different shells have different features to offer the end user, but in the
> end they all do the same thing, interpert user input. If you want to
> learn more about them, csh ( or tcsh ) and bash are fairly easy to learn
> and have some nice features like command/filename completion using the tab
> key and up-arrow history. You can learn this from the man pages, by
> typing man bash, man tcsh at your SHELL prompt :)
>
> This is just a simple, brief explanation of what they do however. Shells
> are very powerful and have a lot of features that can take a years to
> expertise. Hope this helps.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 07:13:52 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: David Miles <dmiles@debian1.sssys.com>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: terminology/concept questions
> > Resent-Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:59:50 -0000
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> >
> > C shell, borne shell, ?? shell, etc.
> >
> > in simple terms, would someone briefly explain to me what these terms
> > mean, please?
> >
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