When we speak of the command line, we are really referring to the shell. The shell is a program that takes keyboard commands and passes them to the operating system to carry out. Almost all Linux distributions supply a shell program from the GNU Project called bash. The name “bash” is an acronym for “Bourne Again SHell”, a reference to the fact
bash is an enhanced replacement for sh, the original Unix shell program written by Steve Bourne.
bash is an enhanced replacement for sh, the original Unix shell program written by Steve Bourne.