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shell [May 14, 2026 at 11:38] – external edit 127.0.0.1shell [May 14, 2026 at 13:07] (current) – yanevskiv
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 When people say "run this command in a terminal" they usually mean running the command in a terminal shell. Any program (like vim) can theoretically run in the terminal on its own, without being started by a shell. But -- it is the shell that allows you to type in `vim file.txt` and hit enter to run vim. The shell is the one that parses that and says "Aha, the user wants to run the program `/usr/bin/vim` and pass `file.txt` as the only argument". When people say "run this command in a terminal" they usually mean running the command in a terminal shell. Any program (like vim) can theoretically run in the terminal on its own, without being started by a shell. But -- it is the shell that allows you to type in `vim file.txt` and hit enter to run vim. The shell is the one that parses that and says "Aha, the user wants to run the program `/usr/bin/vim` and pass `file.txt` as the only argument".
  
-The most popular shell in [[gnu-linux|GNU/Linux]] is [[bash|Bash]] shell. +The most popular shell in [[gnu-linux|GNU/Linux]] is bash shell.
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- - [[tty]] +
- - [[terminal]] +
- - [[curses]]+
  
 ## Command line ## Command line
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