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Lily Jarvi
@jarvilily 17, Jul 2023 12:00 AM
difference between BASH and DOS
What is the basic difference between BASH and DOS?
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Joseph Brownbear
@josephbrownbear93 21, Jul 2023 03:54 PM
The key differences between the BASH and DOS console lie in 3 areas:
– BASH commands are case sensitive while DOS commands are not;
– Under BASH, / character is a directory separator and \ acts as an escape character. Under DOS, / serves as a command argument delimiter and \ is the directory separator
– DOS follows a convention in naming files, which is 8 character file name followed by a dot and 3 characters for the extension. BASH follows no such convention.