Whenever we type any text in the shell Terminal, it is the responsibility of the shell (/bin/bash) to execute the command properly. The activities done by the shell are as follows:
- Reading text and parsing the entered command
- Evaluating meta-characters, such as wildcards, special characters, or history characters
- Process io-redirection, pipes, and background processing
- Signal handling
- Initializing programs for execution
We will discuss the preceding topics in the subsequent chapters.
