On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:39, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:31, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > I'm working on some environment setup scripts and I need to know inside > > the script which shell the user (the person running the script) is > > using. Short of doing a finger username and parsing out which shell > > they are using, how do I figure this out? > > The environment variable SHELL will tell you. > > $ echo $SHELL > /bin/bash
That's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to be set, at least for me using ksh...maybe I just need to make sure that it is set in everyone's .profile? Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
