Eric Blake wrote:
Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and not just in the bash shell variable namespace?
thanks - I had no idea there were 2 variable namespaces. It looks like everything I can see in 'environ' was explcitly exported in /etc/profile, or ~/.bashrc, or picked up from Windows.
Is there a way for C programs to pick up the contents of the shell variable namespace? In particular, is there some way I can pick up SHELL, or some other way that I can find out if my app's running on bash?
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