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Old 11-09-2006
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The shell is a special program used as an interface between the user and the heart of the UNIX operating system, a program called the kernel..

It is a utility program that starts up when you log on. It allows user to interact with the kernel by interpreting commands that are typed either at the command line or in a script file.

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