| ▲ | JdeBP 3 days ago |
| They are all terminal emulators. You have probably, as one who has never used the command line, never touched an actual terminal. |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 3 days ago | parent [-] |
| A shell is not a terminal emulator. It's a program that does text I/O (perhaps with a terminal, perhaps not) and implements basic system functionality like executing programs and often scripting. |
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| ▲ | MangoToupe 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Most people interact with a shell through a terminal emulator, though. The alternative is something like emacs's eshell. Or an actual "terminal" which hasn't been even available for purchase for many decades. | | |
| ▲ | fluoridation 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Not always. The shell may be facing a serial interface, or it could be spawned by a program and have no user interface at all. | | |
| ▲ | MangoToupe 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I probably wouldn't describe either as a human interacting with a shell, but nevertheless point taken. | | |
| ▲ | fluoridation 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I wouldn't either, which I why I didn't include that interaction in the definition I gave. A shell just implements basic system functionality, it doesn't necessarily function as a UI. |
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