Thebinarybot's Guide to Shells

“I’m in” is a classic dialogue used in almost most of the techno-geek or hacker-ish films to describe that they have “hacked” into a system. But what does it actually mean? What did the hero get into?

A shell is nothing but merely a computer program that provides the user with an interface to input instructions into the system and view text output. These inputs are said to be command-line inputs as they do not have a graphical interface and require you to type words, quite literally.

But there's a lot more to it.

In this guide, learn about:

• What a Shell is
• What is a Terminal Emulator
• The different Shell variants
• Types of Shells
• Explore Tools with Commands to Get Shell

Learn about reverse shells, bind shells, web shells and much more.

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