Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> writes: >> Additionally 2: Until this thing is sorted out, I still use zsh as my >> main shell. But it just occurred to me that when I have a zsh shell >> and start fish by issuing it at the prompt, SHELL will remain >> /bin/zsh. Is that intensional? > > Yes it is intentional. $SHELL does not represent the current shell, it > represents your preferred shell, see POSIX [1].
Ups, then I guess I've written a lot scripts wrongly in the past by dispatching on SHELL assuming that's the current one. (Fortunately, I've never written an important production script.) Bye, Tassilo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users