What is Shell?

[premMS143]

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


Please anybody reply for this.
Please

[debasisdas]

In Vb shell is s function that is used to open any exe or batch file.

That is totally different from shell scripting.

[vdraceil]

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?

[debasisdas]

please find al about shell scripts here

[premMS143]

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?

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.

[jg007]

another really great microsoft resource -

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/begin/archive.mspx