I remember my first shell programming I ever did was batch in windows back in the 3.11/95 days.
replyThe first line was always to turn off echo, and I've always wondered why that was a decision for batch script. Or I'm misremembering. 30 years of separation makes it hard to remember the details.
Echo in that case prints command lines before executing them. Its analog is `set -x` rather than `echo`.
replyIt’s a shell, not the whole thing. The whole thing is the shell+kernel+programs.
replyIt prints a prompt.
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