what is difference between kernel and shell?

Answer Posted / shubham agrawal

kernel basically act as a interface to the hardware. it
gives commands in low level language to the hardware for
intereact it with our OS
while shell is a command line interpreter. it interprete
the command written in HLL to LLL and send it to the kernel
to perform it. So in this way we can say that kernel is
heart of the OS while shell is mind.

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