On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Stuart Jansen said:
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> > > > The above doesn't help in this case anyway, I want to do certain things
> > > > if the user is using ksh and certain other things if the user is using
> > > > bash. It wouldn't matter what shell is running _my_ script, I want to
> > > > know what shell the user is using. Man, does that make any sense? I
> > > > don't even know if I've got the right terminology. Anyone want to
> > > > recommend a good shell scripting book? One that isn't too specific to
> > > > bash or ksh?
If all you're trying to do is to get a user's shell, you could write up a
pretty short program that calls getpwnam, and outputs the shell:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct passwd *Passwd;
Passwd = getpwnam(argv[1]);
printf("%s", Passwd->pw_shell);
}
Frank
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