A mix of commandline interface and scripting language used to interact with a computer. In common parlance, the shell programming language usually refers to a family of Unix-like command languages which have been ported to a variety of different operating systems.
Common shells
Unix shells
- Almquist shell (ash)
- Bash (Unix Shell)
- Bourne shell (sh)
- C shell (csh)
- KorneShell (ksh)
- rc shell (rc)
- Z shell (zsh)