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Basic shell

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Basic shell

The Linux command line, which is also known more properly, as the Shell. Now the Shell can be launched or started in a GUI window called a terminal program Now if you didn't have a GUI setup because you wanted to save on some resources, you can also login to the system locally using a text-based console. In addition to this, there's a Shell that started when you remotely log in to a computer or a server if you're using a text-mood login protocol something like Telnet or SSH. Now, the default Shell in most Linux distributions is what's known as BASH, the Bourne Again Shell. This is based on an older Shell, which was called the Bourne Shell. Other Shells are also available, but for the purposes of our time together, in the lessons we're going to do, I'm going to be using the BASH Shell. Most of the other Shells are very similar to the BASH Shell in functionality but there are some subtle differences that do exist. Now,…

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