In some ways it is similar to the DOS command prompt in MS which I am familiar with.
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:39 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:04 +1300, Lindsay wrote: > > Am I right then in assuming that it is another term for 'terminal?' > Almost. A shell, such as bash [1], runs within a terminal. The terminal > is the display mechanism, but bash is the program. > > While a shell is the most commonly run program in a terminal, you can > start a terminal with something else running within it. For example, the > following starts a terminal running vi, rather than a shell. > xterm -e vi > When you exit vi (Type <Esc> followed by <:> then <q> then <Enter>) the > terminal will close. > > [1] There are other shells, usually wish "sh" in their name, c.f. sh, > ksh, tsh, tcsh, zsh, sash, ash…
