On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 06:22:25PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > I was fooled by "echo $SHELL" returning "/bin/bash", but when I manually > call "/bin/bash" before running the above command (it is not a script > yet), it works. > > What the heck is going on here ... (!x****mpf)
The $SHELL variable does not indicate what shell you are actually using. It tells programs like vi what shell to *launch* when you do a shell escape. The most reliable way I've found so far to see what shell you are actually in is: ps -p $$ This works in both Bourne- and C-shell family shells, and it works with both BSD- and SysV-based ps commands.
