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When I enter "echo $SHELL" I get:

/bin/bash

However, my terminal window is named:

Terminal - sh -csh

How is this possible? Am I running three shells at once?
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do "echo $0"
that's the shell you're running
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OK, I just did. The result is:

sh
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Yes, it's true. When I launch a "bash" shell, none of the major commands work. E.g. when I type "ls" I get an error "Command not found". The same with virtually all other commands except "cd" and "pwd" or "cd ..".

Is it possible that I made some unwanted changes to any of the configuation files? I think Unix hates me....
If what you are doing is logging in, then at the command line typing bash, you are losing your path.

If you want to use bash as your shell, ask your SA to change your login shell to bash.
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