What is the role of a shell in Linux?

Answer 1

Program ExecutionVariable and File name Substitution I/O RedirectionPipeline HookupEnvironment ControlInterpreted Programming Language

Answer 2

1. 1. The shell interpits the command line for the user

   2. Porgram exicution the shell is responsible for excuting the command that we enter

   meaning it analyzes the command before it is exucted

   3. The shell has a responsibility of the input output redirection of a file.

   4.The shell provides commands that let you customize your environment also.

   5.The shell has its own built-in programming language, meaning that the shell analyzes each statement in the language one line at a time and then executes it.

6.The shell the interface that is seen and used by users. i.e. Kernal and Shell. Kernal takes care of hardware interface and shell communicates with Kernal. That communication is called system calls

Thats just a quick sum.

Answer 3

A shell is used to give Linux commands or get it to do something. X is a graphical shell. Bash is a command line, or "traditional" shell.

How they work differs from shell to shell, but in a command line shell you typically type in a command and get the result.

Answer 4

The simple answer is that the shell is the interface between the user and the operating system kernel.

Answer 5

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