What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?

In the linux world they can all look the same from the point of view of the user at the keyboard. The differences are in how they interact with each other. The shell is the program which actually processes commands and returns output. Most shells also manage foreground and background processes, command history and command line editing. These features (and many more) are standard in , the most common shell in modern linux systems. A terminal refers to a wrapper program which runs a shell. Decade…