Friendly interactive shell was created on 2005-02-13.
There are dozens of shells for Linux. The most popular are: bash (Bourne-Again Shell) ksh (Korn shell) zsh (Z Shell) ash (Almquist shell) dash (Debian Almquist shell) BusyBox (based on ash) fish (Friendly Interactive Shell)
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.
Will Interactive was created in 1994.
Her Interactive was created in 1995.
An interactive shell is attached to a console and usually needs to interact with a person to provide answers. etc. A non-interactive shell won't stop execution to ask anyone and can be run unattended by the system. It also doesn't have an associated terminal for output.
Bohemia Interactive was created in 1999.
Interactive Intelligence was created in 1994.
Interactive C was created in 1997.
Prince Interactive was created in 1994.
Zoetrope Interactive was created in 2005.
SG Interactive was created in 2010.
Hero Interactive was created in 2006.