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Re: [PLUG] What is my current shell?
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Actually, I take that back. It just isn't going to work in a situation
where there are directory services present. :)
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-Jon
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jon Bringhurst <jon@bringhurst.org> wrote:
> Perhaps something like...
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> grep `whoami` /etc/passwd | awk -F':' '{print $7}'
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> -Jon
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>> We have an oddball problem. Is there any portable way to determine
>> what shell you are using once you are inside a script?
>>
>> Right now, we are thinking of using
>> which `echo $0`
>>
>> As you can see here, $SHELL does not change when you switch shells.
>> [2:07pm] [shaha:pts/8] [shaha] : /gtc/staff/shaha/work/sortT > echo $SHELL
>> /usr/local/bin/tcsh
>> [2:08pm] [shaha:pts/8] [shaha] : /gtc/staff/shaha/work/sortT > bash
>> shaha@shaha:~/work/sortT$ echo $SHELL
>> /usr/local/bin/tcsh
>>
>> This is for problems at customer sites where they are using the wrong
>> Bourne shell on Solaris (/bin/sh) when we want them to use
>> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Amul
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