Shell

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What Wikipedia says

An operating system shell is a computer program that provides relatively broad and direct access to the system on which it runs. The term shell refers to how it is a relatively thin layer around an operating system.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Shell (computing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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