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Which shell am I using?
Is there an easy way to tell what shell you are using? I'm used to bash and wish I had it on this system (HP-UX setup), but I can't tell what shell I'm using. The prompt doesn't give it away, but there are several (chsh, keysh, ksh, sh) in my /bin directory which I'm guessing are all shells?! Is there a command to check the current shell, and can someone direct me to a place where i might find the bash shell on the net? Thanks!
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The shell for a user is specified in the /etc/passwd file entry for that user as the last field, you can take a look at that or simply echo the SHELL variable on the command line:
echo $SHELL which will tell you what shell you are using at the moment. To download bash binaries: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html Regards |
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