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# Shell
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On UNIX(r), the shell is the main interaction tool between the
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user-level and the system. That doesn't necessarily mean the user
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always sits infront of a shell, but it's integral part of the system,
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not only an \"optional commandline interpreter\".
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The main job of a shell is to execute commands as a user requests them.
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This behaviour alone doesn't help much. A shell knits some intelligence
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and flow control around the possibility to execute commands - it's a
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complete commandline-oriented user-interface (UI).
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FIXME
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## See also
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## See also (external)
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- Wikipedia: [UNIX shell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell)
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