David Miles wrote: > > C shell, borne shell, ?? shell, etc. In Linux (and other UNIX syyle systems) each user has a choice of which shell to use. sh, the Bourne shell is the original shell and is used for the shell scripts in /etc/init.d which initialize the system at boot time. bash, the born again shell, is the freeware version of sh which was created to circumvent licensing/copyright problems and is, in fact the shell that's really used as sh on Linux and other freeware Unices. ksh, the Korn shell, is an extension of sh - that is it will happily run sh shell scripts, and provides additional features; zsh is a similar shell. csh was designed to provide more c language like control (I'm not a fan thereof and can't privide any more detail than that, but csh may not be able to run sh scripts and vice-versa. tcsh is an extension to csh as I understand. tclsh is a tcl language shell. rsh was once the restricted sh and is now usually the remote operating shell. There are other shells which I can't think of just now that have been created to offer special features; and then there are the various flavors of window managers that run under X which are also shell "languages" in some sense, in that they provide a user interface to various kernel services. HTH > > in simple terms, would someone briefly explain to me what these terms > mean, please? > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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