In UNIX/LINUX systems, any commands you issue to the OS are passed through a command interpreter layer around the kernel called the shell. The UNIX shell has many variants but they are fundamentally the same, and you can easily migrate from one to another.
1. sh: The Bourne shell - it is the original UNIX shell. 2. csh: The C shell - it uses syntax similar to C programming language. 3. ksh: Korn shell -A superset of Bourne shell 4. bash: Bourne again Shell - includes features of both sh and csh. To find which shell you are using [oracle@usha ~]$ which $SHELL /bin/bash First line of any shell script identifies which UNIX/LINUX shell you are using to write your script. #!/bin/bash |