What is a shell?
At its base, a shell is simply a macro processor that executes commands. The term macroprocessor means functionality where text and symbols are expanded to create larger expressions.
A Unix shell is both a command interpreter and a programming language. As a com-mand interpreter, the shell provides the user interface to the rich set of gnu utilities. Theprogramming language features allow...
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