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Old 10-03-2008
Shell and commandline interpreter-definitions
What is the difference between the(a) shell and the (a) command-line interpreter?
Here we're talking about the complete dummy question, but could someone point me right.

(yes, have written scripts in for instance bash shell,
and and grepp-ed my way around ....Smilie
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Old 10-04-2008
The shell is a kind of CLI - command line interpreter. They are identical.
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Old 10-10-2008
Ok, thanks.
I skip the last part of being identical and go for "shell is a kind of ".
That would mean that a shell is one example of a CLI and DOS, FTP other examples.

Correct?
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Old 10-10-2008
If you are talking about DOS, the shell equivalent in DOS would be command.com or cmd in NT
Remember DOS is a Operating system like VMS MVS CPM UNIX etc...
A Command line Interpreter is the interface between you and the OS :
And so translates your requests (whatever you have typed at the prompt AND that it understands) to the OS internals.. and displays the output...
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Old 10-12-2008
Ah, get it, thanks.
Question thereby closed.
Thanks!
"Command line Interpreter is the interface between you and the OS"
 
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