operating system shell

System software, that provides interfaces and exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other program
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operating system shell

Summary

operating system shell is a software category[1]. It draws 581 Wikipedia views per month (software_category category, ranking #28 of 263).[2]

Key Facts

  • operating system shell's image is recorded as KDE Plasma 5.26 screenshot.png[3].
  • operating system shell's image is recorded as Tcsh screenshot.png[4].
  • operating system shell's instance of is recorded as software category[5].
  • operating system shell's subclass of is recorded as computer program[6].
  • operating system shell's subclass of is recorded as utility software[7].
  • operating system shell's subclass of is recorded as system software[8].
  • operating system shell's Commons category is recorded as Command shells[9].
  • operating system shell's said to be the same as is recorded as user interface[10].
  • operating system shell's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/070m23[11].
  • operating system shell's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Command shells[12].
  • operating system shell's facet of is recorded as operating system[13].
  • operating system shell's partially coincident with is recorded as command-line interpreter[14].
  • operating system shell's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/shell[15].
  • operating system shell's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://serverfault.com/tags/shell[16].
  • operating system shell's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://vi.stackexchange.com/tags/shell[17].
  • operating system shell's different from is recorded as command-line interpreter[18].
  • operating system shell's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as shell[19].
  • operating system shell's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 185856177[20].
  • operating system shell's KBpedia ID is recorded as ShellProgram[21].
  • operating system shell's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Shell[22].
  • operating system shell's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Shell/hu[23].
  • operating system shell's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Shell/ta[24].
  • operating system shell's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Shell/ja[25].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for operating system shell include Log4Shell[26], a vulnerability[27] and Phosh[28], a user interface[29].

Why It Matters

operating system shell draws 581 Wikipedia views per month (software_category category, ranking #28 of 263).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include Log4Shell[26], a vulnerability[27] and Phosh[28], a user interface[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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