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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Changing from one shell to another Post 302458232 by malikshahid85 on Thursday 30th of September 2010 06:17:52 AM
Old 09-30-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by gautamshaw
ok First i did this:

#ksh

then i did this:

echo $SHELL

The output i get is this:

/bin/bash

why not the output is /bin/ksh then?

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every time i write this:

echo $SHELL

the output is /bin/bash

after #ksh, if i do this: echo $SHELL

then also the output is /bin/bash

So?????getting confused
if you want to change your shell just edit bash to ksh in the /etc/passwd file end of the your username file.for example your username is oracle

Code:
 
vi /etc/passwd
oracle:x:250:302:Oracle User:/export/home/oracle:/bin/bash

change bash with ksh and save the file
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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