[TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Alan Porter wrote:

>
> Otherwise, it depends on reading the running user's 
> preferred shell (in most cases, from the current value of 
> the $SHELL variable).

(just a warning).

$SHELL gives (in the case of tcsh/csh/bash) the shell you 
opened the session with, not your current shell. This is a 
real pain - I would have hoped that I'd get my current 
shell. I have to run csh scripts at work and I'm always 
invoking csh, editing and running scripts and then later 
exiting. It's not easy to see which shell I'm in. At the 
command prompt, I run setenv to see if it fails.

Joe

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