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By default, terminals run a program called a shell.
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most of them with names ending in SH,
like ZSH, KSH, and so on.
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Most operating systems today
run a shell called Bash, and
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that's what we're running here.
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All the different shells
work very similarly, so
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the things you'll learn in Bash will
be applicable in the other shells too.
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You can see a bunch of text here,
ending in a dollar sign.
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This is the shell prompt, the shell
is prompting you to type something.
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Most shell prompts end with a dollar sign,
like this.
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The blinking box following
the dollar sign is the cursor,
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