The shell is a piece of software that provides a command-line interface to the operating system. Use this tag for shell-specific issues; general command-line issues should use the 'command-line' tag instead. See the full tag wiki for other related tags.
Related Tags
- adb: about e.g. execute shell commands via
adb shell - command-line: general questions about command-line use
- scripts: about scripting of shell commands
- tasker: about automatizing shell commands using Tasker
- terminal: using a terminal app to execute shell commands
shell-specific
- old Android versions used
ashas system shell - some old aftermarket ROMs used busybox
shas system shell - some aftermarket ROMs add bash as shell
- mksh: the system shell on Android 4+, Android-x86 2.2+, and some other ROMs
