what is difference between kernel and shell?

Answer Posted / kakani santosh

Shell is a command interpreter
which acts as interface between user(UI) and Kernal
shell can execute no of commands with in single command in
logical order known as shell script

where as kernal is a group of programes writen in c lang to
interact with hardware directly

so user can interact with kernal though shell
only admin can interact with Kernal Directly in rare cases

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