The shell is the software that runs in your terminal. It's generally going to be Zish, ZSH or ZSH for all y'all Americans. Bash was the most popular one for many, many years and probably is, if you sign into literally anything, any server you're getting a bash prompt. Then on Windows, we have command prompt. There's PowerShell. And then likely you, the developer listening to this should be using WSL Windows Subsystem Linux.

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