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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to tell which shell is running a script Post 302364677 by cfajohnson on Friday 23rd of October 2009 04:00:31 PM
Old 10-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by nck
I always thought that the : in the beginning of a script meant that whatever shell you are in is what the script would use.

I've always found it safer to always specify #!/bin/?shell? at the beginning to make sure.

I usually use a shebang only when on a system that doesn't have a POSIX shell in /bin/sh or when I need some feature not supported by the standard shell.
 

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NAME

       lr_environment - Export Lire configuration in shell script form

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       The lr_environment command is used to import the Lire configuration in Lire shell scripts.

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       Shell scripts don't usually have to use that command, since it is done by the defaults file sourced by each command.

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