Summary
The shell is a utility program that translates the commands typed by the user into commands that are interpreted by the kernel. Some of the features of shells include interactive and background processing, input/output redirection, command alias support, and command history maintenance.
The different types of shells in Solaris are Bourne, C, Korn, Bash, Tcsh, and Zsh. The Bourne shell is the default shell, and it is used for shell scripts. The C shell provides a programming interface that is similar to the C programming language. The korn shell combines the features of both the Bourne and the C shells. The bash shell is an enhancement to the Bourne shell and is the default shell for most Linux systems. The tcsh shell provides an interactive ...
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