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Discussion on: Explain the difference between shell, console, terminal, command line, etc. like I'm five

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Aniket Dandekar • Edited

shell is like your sweet mother, who does everything thing for you, who listen to your needs, if you ask her tell me date she go and check the date and tell you.

*consol * is like your big house, where you live and do all you task like playing games, doing search for something or maybe exploring.

terminal is like a room inside a house, where you play or explore or do somethings with your toys,beds,books,maybe with cloths and doors too. but as a 5 yr old kid you may dont have big arms,big body todo some certain task btw.

command line is like your speaking language, if you ask mother to do something then you need to tell her what exactly you need then she will give it to you, if you need something and your cant able to tell her and she cant understand it then she wont fullfill the request you made. or you ask something like give me that perticular toy which is not in your entire house that time also she cant fullfill that request.

here comes the father who will fullfill that need of your but first you need to tell your mother then she tell to your father and give it to you. father is like install package manager commands.