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Aswath KNM

Console, terminal, command-line all are same.

like this one

All of them mean the same thing in different operating systems. A non-GUI way to use pc

for example "Double-click" on a file in Ubuntu is equal to

xdg-open filename

in command line or console or terminal

Shell is a software/language to talk to terminal

like

pwd - print directory name
mkdir - make or create a new directory