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A terminal emulator emulates a terminal in a graphical environment. It provides a command line interface from which you can give shell commands, which you cannot do otherwise from a GUI (other than by using Run Command from the Main menu).
That would depend on what shell you're using. Most seem to have a command similar to "echo x" which will print x to the terminal.
The TPUT utility uses the terminfo database to make the values of terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell
The common shell variables differ according to which shell you are talking about. In general, they control the shell environment behavior, terminal behavior, and other external things. You can get a list per shell by using the 'man' command with the shell name to list out the common variables used in that shell environment.
The first command shell was 'sh', the Bourne shell (Steven Bourne).
Type exit to leave a terminal.
In an interactive shell session the shell program waits for the user to type in a command. When receiving a command the shell program will then attempt to locate it and process (execute) the command. You are interacting with the shell. Running a shell file requires a pre-stored series of commands stored in a file. Unless the shell program you are running is interactive then the shell executes each command in sequence, without involving the user at all.
Command Prompt is the command-line interpreter used within the Windows operating system. As Mac OS X is based on the Unix operating system it uses the a Unix Shell command-line interpreter. You can access the Shell by running the Terminal application which can be found in the Utilities folder which is within the Applications folder.
While the command is executing, the shell waits for the process to finish.
The output would be 'shell shell' (without the quotes, of course)
A kernel is the heart of the operating system and acts as a middle ground between hardware and software. Some (if not all) device drivers are kernel-level drivers as kernelmodules. A shell is a command terminal that allows the user to interact with the user.
echo $SHELL