On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:02, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote: > > so, echo $SHELL seems not to be reliable, how could I now which shell I > > am using? (Imagine you need to know in a script)? > > You should never need to know this in a script, because (correct) > scripts should always have #! lines at the top specifying the > interpreter to use. > > In practice I've never found myself needing a shell variable to let me > know in any other situation either; I know what my login shell is, and I > can use 'getent passwd | grep ^whatever-my-user-name-is' to find out if
I learn something new every hour! Never heard of getent before. (Though in this instance 'cat /etc/passwd | grep ^whatever-my-user-name-is' is only one character longer). -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
