topic Re: current shell in Operating System - HP-UX

current shell

Davis Paul — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:07:57 GMT

Hi,
How can I understand in which shell I am presently working?

Re: current shell

Geoff Wild — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:10:36 GMT

echo $SHELL

Rgds...Geoff

Re: current shell

Franky_1 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:13:36 GMT

Hi Davis,

echo $SHELL gives you the actual shell. If you have opend another one e.g. ksh from there then you can type echo $$ and look for the named process id. It will give you the named shell information

Regards

Franky

Re: current shell

Shrikant Lavhate — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:17:43 GMT

Also, if you want to see users startup shell then it can be viewed from last column in /etc/passwd file.

Re: current shell

spex — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:24:31 GMT

The 'env' command will display exported environmental variables, including $SHELL.

Re: current shell

Dennis Handly — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:32:10 GMT

You can also type a bogus command and typically the shell with give you its name:
ksh: dfsfsd: not found

(Unfortunately the scummy C shell doesn't.)

>Franky: type echo $$ and look for the named process

You can optimize this to: ps -fp $$

Re: current shell

Davis Paul — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:22:55 GMT

Thank you all.