On 7/13/17 6:05 PM, John Reiser wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 43
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         When invoked as /bin/sh with SHELL unset, then bash should set SHELL
>         to /bin/sh, not to the login shell for the current user.

Posix, the closest thing we have to a standard description of SHELL, says:

"This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's preferred command
language interpreter."

The best approximation of that is the user's login shell.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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