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 When you log in via SSH, you are presented with the command line interface, by means of the shell. When you log in via SSH, you are presented with the command line interface, by means of the shell.
 The current default is Bash. Bash stands for "Bourne Again SHell", and is one (but the most commonly used by far) of many shells available for Linux. The current default is Bash. Bash stands for "Bourne Again SHell", and is one (but the most commonly used by far) of many shells available for Linux.
-A shell is is what interprets what you type into the prompt and makes things happen - different shells do things differently.+A shell is what interprets what you type into the prompt and makes things happen - different shells do things differently.
 Your default shell is bash, although you can change it if you wish, but this document will only give you a brief introduction to using the shell to run programs and use the filesystem. Your default shell is bash, although you can change it if you wish, but this document will only give you a brief introduction to using the shell to run programs and use the filesystem.
  
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 Yay, we've narrowed our matches down to what we wanted! Alternatively we could have tried ''apropos "irc client"'' which would have yielded the same results. However, typing ''apropos irc client'' without the quotes would have returned twice the unwanted results, as it would have searched for both "irc" and "client" and given you results for either. The quotes tell Bash to treat what you put in them as one continuous string. Yay, we've narrowed our matches down to what we wanted! Alternatively we could have tried ''apropos "irc client"'' which would have yielded the same results. However, typing ''apropos irc client'' without the quotes would have returned twice the unwanted results, as it would have searched for both "irc" and "client" and given you results for either. The quotes tell Bash to treat what you put in them as one continuous string.
  
 +Now go to the [[howto:homepage|next tutorial]] to learn about how to create a web page that is automatically hosted by Tardis, on your own subdomain.
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