Finding out which shell you are using

Finding out which shell you are using

Information about which shell you are using is held in the SHELL environment variable. The command

   echo $SHELL

displays the value of this variable.

You can identify which shell you are presently using from the last part of the pathname.

Pathname Shell

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/.../sh Bourne shell /.../csh C shell /.../tcsh TC shell /.../ksh Korn shell /.../bash Bourne Again SHell __________________________________________________________


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