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The most popular shell by far is [http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ bash] which is provided by the GNU team. There are several other popular shells, depending on your requirements and skillset: | The most popular shell by far is [http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ bash] which is provided by the GNU team. There are several other popular shells, depending on your requirements and skillset: | ||
Revision as of 12:15, 12 March 2007
A shell is both a command language and a programming language (interpreted) that provides an interface to any UNIX based operating system UBO.
The most popular shell by far is bash which is provided by the GNU team. There are several other popular shells, depending on your requirements and skillset:
- csh
- tcsh
- sh
- ash
- zsh
to see what shell you are using:
$ echo $SHELL
which is one of the variables that can be found in your environment. You can get a list of all of your environment variables:
$ env
as you can see, there is where you will change items such as your PATH
