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Operating Systems Solaris Alias is not working under Bourne Shell Post 302960170 by cjcox on Wednesday 11th of November 2015 05:32:18 PM
Old 11-11-2015
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
Finally, "echo $SHELL", is also an incorrect way to identify what shell you are running, This command will tell you the user's default shell, i.e. the one defined in the passwd database.
No. The SHELL var, where used/understood just says what shell to use if needed (e.g. .a sub shell created from another process). Doesn't have to be the shell defined in user's passwd entry at all, in fact has better chance of being set by the shell itself.

What shell is running?

echo $0 might be the best hint. Or ps -p $$
 

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platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

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NAME
platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities SYNOPSIS
package require platform::shell ?1.1.4? platform::shell::generic shell platform::shell::identify shell platform::shell::platform shell _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell. This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine. While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run 32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers. For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software. COMMANDS
platform::shell::identify shell This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::generic shell This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::platform shell This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell. KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture platform::shell 1.1.4 platform::shell(n)
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