How to use BASH?

I see some articles referring to BASH & they tend to assume everyone knows how to run it.

How do I use this?

What's the difference between BASH & TERMINAL?

 

Bash is just another word for terminal, as far as i am aware they are one and the same. This article will explain the bash/terminal:

http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal

Any questions, just whistle. You do know how to whistle, don't you?

 

Actually BASH and TERMINAL are not nessecarily synonyms.

Opening a terminal could give you a Bourne Again SHell, C SHell, TCSH or one of many others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell#Shell_categories.

Many people will tend to use the terms synonymously but that doesn't make it right. Generally a person's shell is set in /etc/passwd when a new user is created. This article titled "UNIX Shell Differences and How to Change your Shell" is a good resource of information (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/), as is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells.

Sorry if I'm preachy.... But I'm an old unix/linux geek.

-P/KAF

 

Just to add to the last post

BASH is a script based programming language, so if interested see

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

It is not the same as a terminal but you do start a terminal to run a BASH script.

If you get a file that looks like filename.sh then look at it in a file viewer. It is just a text file and if it starts

#!/bin/bash
#
# filename.sh

Then its a BASH file. Run it in a terminal
:~$ sh filename.sh

edit:
I have been a bit simplistic. What we call a terminal is really a shell but it does not matter providing you can use it.
There is another way to run filename.sh - if the file is made executable. In Thunar, right click and look at properties -> permissions.
If it is set to 'run as a program' you can then run it using dot-slash

:-$ ./filename.sh

Sounds like you need a couple of guides to linux in general. Try
http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

best of luck

 

Thanks. So whenever anyone refers to bash, I just run it in terminal.

The only whistling I do requires people to be within earshot.