Everything you do on the Linux command line involves a shell, whether you pay it any mind or not. It’s probably Bash, possibly Zsh, but either way, it’s highly relevant to all shell scripting, big and ...
Essentially, the Linux shell interprets commands so the kernel can understand and use them. Without the shell, not only would commands not work, but applications wouldn’t work. So, yes, the shell is ...
If you use the terminal a lot, you can probably understand the frequent pain of typing out long commands. Bash's tab completion is ineffective, file paths are tedious to write, and typos are a ...