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What is the difference between "Shell" and "Terminal"?
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I am fairly new to Ubuntu and I am loving it! But I don't quite understand the difference between the shell and the terminal. Can any one explain? Someone told me that a terminal is just a "tool" to view the shell, akin to using a browser like Firefox or Chrome to "view" the web. Is his analogy cor…
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That's not a bad analogy at all. A terminal can be considered as just a device to display information and receive it. It can range from a dumb terminal which does nothing but interpret printable characters, to a behemoth with full cursor positioning…
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