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What is Shell?

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I am having confusion about Shell.
Actually what is Shell..?
What is Shell Scripting...?
Where actually its used...?


Please anybody reply for this.
Please
Feb 10 '09 #1
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debasisdas
8,127 Recognized Expert Expert
In Vb shell is s function that is used to open any exe or batch file.

That is totally different from shell scripting.
Feb 11 '09 #2
vdraceil
236 New Member
Ya, in vb..Shell 'abc.txt','note pad.exe'
will open the text file in notepad.
Similarly you can open any file with any app.
But can anyone explain what shell scripting is?
Feb 11 '09 #3
debasisdas
8,127 Recognized Expert Expert
please find al about shell scripts here
Feb 11 '09 #4
premMS143
75 New Member
@vdraceil
Yes..
Exactly what I wanted.
I will try with this.
But, I too don't have an idea about Shell Scripting.
But if you want to know about that, please go to this site;
http://user.it.uu.se/~matkin/documents/shell/

This one I collected from Debasis ( One of the Bytes forum member)
Anyhow thanks for your reply.
Feb 12 '09 #5
jg007
283 Contributor
another really great microsoft resource -

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...n/archive.mspx
Feb 13 '09 #6

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