A shell interpreter is a program that reads and executes commands entered by a user in a command-line interface. It interprets the commands and communicates with the operating system to carry out the requested tasks. Popular shell interpreters include Bash, sh, and PowerShell.
A bashism is a shell command specific to the Bash interpreter.
It is the command interpreter: command.com
Bash shell scripting is the process of writing a series of commands in a text file that are recognized by the bash shell interpreter.
A shell in Linux is the interpreter that provides a commandline interface (CLI). There are many kinds of shells.
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It is the command interpreter: command.com
A command interpreter is a program that converts the human written commands into the machine understandable language through the i/o devices. It is with the help of this interpreter we can actually communicate with the operating systems. A command interpreter is a separate program but can be referred as a component of an operating system.
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If the shell script is readable and executable then to execute it just type the name of the shell script file. Otherwise, you can explicity call a shell interpreter to run the file as a shell script, i.e., ksh myfile
interactive interpreter more like a "shell" (if you're a unix person).
KSH is an abbreviation for korn shell. Korn shell is a command interpreter for the Unix programming language. It was written in 1983 by David Korn at Bell Labs.
A shell is a command interpreter. This is not limited to Unix. The programs COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE are also shells in the DOS/Windows environments. The program EXPLORER.EXE is also a shell, though with a graphical interface.