current shell

[Davis Paul]

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

[Geoff Wild]

echo $SHELL


Rgds...Geoff

[Franky_1]

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

[Shrikant Lavhate]

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

[spex]

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

[Dennis Handly]

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 $$

[Davis Paul]

Thank you all.