09-10-2003
The second shell for unix was csh. Shortly after csh arrived, the SHELL environment variable was introduced. It was set to the value of the shell field in /etc/passwd. From it's inception, it was intended to be the user's favorite interactive shell. Programs like vi refer to it when when they are asked to spawn an interactive shell. If it also was for scripts, that would mean that we must use the same shell for interactive use and for scripts. csh was better than sh as an interactive shell but sh was better than csh for scripts.
The only exception to this that I know of is with the program "make". It reads the environment and treats each environment variable as a make macro. That includes the SHELL macro, the environment SHELL variable overrides make's internal deafault for SHELL. So all non-trivial makefiles now explicitly set the SHELL macro. make's habit of assuming that the entire environment is intended for it is not great behavior.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)
NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)