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Old 01-17-2006
how to identify the type of shell using comands..
Dear friends,
please tell me how to identify the type of the shell (whether cShell, kshell or anything else)
please tell me the command.

waiting for ur reply....

regards,
swamymns
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Old 01-17-2006
$SHELL holds the value you are looking for.

Yet another way would be to lookup the info in /etc/passwd.
Last edited by vino; 01-18-2006 at 12:39 AM.. Reason: typo...
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Old 01-18-2006
another way,

a simple ps command would get u the listing.

shell that you use currently also would be included.

Ex: let's say your default shell is /bin/ksh

and in .profile at the end; loaded another shell /bin/bash
ps command would give the listing of all shells spawned and the current shell you are in.
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