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Bash is the GNU Bourne-Again Shell, the command interpreter and scripting language that reads, expands and runs commands on most Linux systems.
An environment variable is a named string passed from a Linux process to its children, used by shells and programs to read settings such as PATH…
PATH is the environment variable listing the directories a Linux shell searches, in order, to find the executable behind a typed command name.
A shell script is a text file of commands that a Linux shell such as Bash executes in sequence to automate administration and repetitive tasks.
A terminal in Linux is the text interface, today usually a terminal emulator, that passes keyboard input to a shell or program and displays its text…
A TTY in Linux is a terminal device that connects a program's input and output to a user, through the kernel's line discipline and job control.
Zsh, the Z shell, is a Unix command interpreter compatible with sh and Bash that adds advanced completion, globbing, prompt themes and plugin frameworks.