Richard writes: > When in an arbitrary terminal of an arbitrary Desktop Environment, how > would I determine which shell is in use?
To find out what shell is the login shell type echo $SHELL To find out what shell you are running type echo $0 To run the Korn shell type ksh To kill the shell you are currenting using type control-D To clear bash command history on logout truncate ~.bash_history in ~.bash_logout. Note that desktop environments do not respect Unix conventions and standards so some of the above may not work as expected in some DEs. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
