On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Greg Matheson wrote: > I couldn't find anything about what is setting $SHELL. > [snip] > > man bash says it sets BASH, but there is nothing about SHELL. Though I > notice on a Linux server, SHELL is also set. > > Where is it being set? > -- > Greg Matheson, Taiwan
Contrary to what the manpage says, bash sets $SHELL as part of its initialization code. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/