On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:02, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote: > > so, echo $SHELL seems not to be reliable, how could I now which > > shell I am using? (Imagine you need to know in a script)? > > You should never need to know this in a script, because (correct) > scripts should always have #! lines at the top specifying the > interpreter to use. > > In practice I've never found myself needing a shell variable to let > me know in any other situation either; I know what my login shell > is, and I can use 'getent passwd | grep ^whatever-my-user-name-is' > to find out if I don't. > > Cheers,
man getent says you can supply it with a key for the system database. so it should work with just getent passwd whatever-my-user-name-is -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
