Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ siju on Tuesday 10 July 2007 07:46 : \____
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was reading the book Ubuntu Linux Unleashed by paul hudson and
>> andrew hudson.
>>
>> In this book a paragraph is written as follows.
>>
>> the command line is also known as the shell,the console,the command
>> prompt,and the CLI. For the purposes of this chapter these are
>> interchangeable,although there are fine-grained differences between
>> them.
>>
>> Now my question is what is this fine grained difference ???
>
> Just a semantic/conceptual difference. It's essentially (in practice) the
> same thing unless you are being very pedantic or talk about one particular
> (fine-grain) aspect, e.g. the prompt.
>
"shell" can be quite different.
You can have bash, tcsh, csh and others as local shells
rsh, ssh (for example) as remote shells
They all serve slightly different purposes / have different capabilities,
yet they all are "shells"
You can have a command-line (a single one) to start an app if you just press
ALT-F2 in KDE. It serves as CLI, yet is different from a console
There are differences between those thingies,
but they all serve to start / control apps
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