how to identify the type of shell using comands..

swamymns · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2006

Dear friends,
please tell me how to identify the type of the shell (whether cShell, kshell or anything else)
please tell me the command.

waiting for ur reply....

regards,
swamymns

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2006

$SHELL holds the value you are looking for.

Yet another way would be to lookup the info in /etc/passwd.

matrixmadhan · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006

another way,

a simple ps command would get u the listing.

shell that you use currently also would be included.

Ex: let's say your default shell is /bin/ksh

and in .profile at the end; loaded another shell /bin/bash
ps command would give the listing of all shells spawned and the current shell you are in.

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