Think of the shell as Super-Dooper DOS. You enter a command, the shell checks it and then the kernel does the rest.
Most Linux distributions use 'bash' as the default shell. The two other big-name shells are 'pdksh' and 'tcsh'. This manual only covers the 'bash' shell since the purpose of this manual is to get you using Linux as quick as possible. When you become confident with Linux, finding out about the other shells will be a stroll-in-the-park.
This rest of this section is under development...
By Laurence Hunter laurence@thebits.co.uk
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