On 2/12/16 10:38 AM, David Hunt wrote: > I'm not trying to write scripts that rely on the value of BASH. I only > discoverd the discrepancy while investigating the potential usefulness > of various variables set by the shell. Perhaps I just don't get the > point of having the variable in the first place.
The idea is to have a `standard' variable that does its best to tell you what the current shell is. SHELL is not suitable for that. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/