Shell - "Shell" is a program, which facilitates the interaction between the user and the operating system (kernel). There are many shell implementations available, like sh, Bash, C shell, Z shell, etc., A bashism is a shell feature which is only supported in bash and certain other more advanced shells. It will not work under busybox sh or dash (which is /bin/sh on a lot of distros), or certain other shells like the /bin/sh provided on FreeBSD., BTW, in bash a semi-colon is a statement separator, not a statement terminator, which is a new-line. So if you only have one statement on a line then the ; at end-of-line are superfluous. Not doing any harm, just a waste of keystrokes (unless you enjoy typing semi-colons)., 118 Let's say I have .env file contains lines like below: USERNAME=ABC PASSWORD=PASS Unlike the normal ones have export prefix so I cannot source the file directly. What's the easiest way to create a shell script that loads content from .env file and set them as environment variables?, How to represent multiple conditions in a shell if statement? Asked 14 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 6 months ago Viewed 1.2m times, Here shell is an alias for bash. Chroma has something called Session. Pygments (doc) uses console, shell-session for bash sessions, pwsh-session, ps1con for power shell sessions and many other non-shell sessions are supported too like interpreter of may languages. Torchlight (doc) has nothing for shell sessions. but has shell for CLI commands .