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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

Interacting with System-console from Python

I'm looking to make some integration with system console and Python 3.5 for a test that I'm running. What I would like to do is write some python that will use something like "subprocess" to bind to...
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7 years ago

Shell is a term, which is often used and often misunderstood. Like the shell of an egg, either hen or Python snake, or a mussel, the shell in computer science is generally seen as a piece of software that provides an interface for a user to some other software or the operating system. So the shell can be an interface between the operating system and the services of the kernel of this operating system. But a web browser or a program functioning as an email client can be seen as shell as well.

Understanding this, it's obvious that a shell can be either

  • a command-line interface (CLI)
  • or
  • a graphical user interface (GUI)

But in most cases the term shell is used as a synonym for a command line interface (CLI). The best known and most often used shells under Linux and Unix are the Bourne-Shell, C-Shell or Bash shell. The Bourne shell (sh) was modelled after the Multics shell, and is the first Unix shell.

Most operating system shells can be used in both interactive and batch mode.

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