A shell prompt is the Unix/Linux equivalent of the DOS prompt. Since you
have the choice of several different operating systems shells to work in
(Bourne shell - sh, Korn shell - ksh, C shell - csh, Bourne Again shell -
bash (my favorite), etc) the command line prompts are generically referred
to
It's conceptually the same. Both allow you to enter in commands to either
execute code in batch or enter program names to be excuted. I'm not sure
about Win platforms. But, in the *.nix environments you have a choice
of different shells. And, also you can run things in the background and
a host of
There is absolutely no difference. Shell prompt is used in *nix because of
the different shells you can work in but it all comes down to the same
thing.
Just type what is asked at the DOS prompt and it will work. The only part
that won't work is the file in the mysql/scripts directory as they are
