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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:54:16 -0400
To:	cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Identifying the interactive shell and logon startup scripts
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In-Reply-To:	<20000810185013.17100.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:50:13AM -0700

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:50:13AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>If you need to know what shell is running the following should suffice:
>
>THISSHELL=`set | grep -i version | cut -c1-4 | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
>if [ -z $THISSHELL]; then 
>  THISSHELL=ash_; 
>fi

This won't work on tcsh.  I thought that was what you were trying to do.
Otherwise, the method that I posted is *a lot* more lightweight than that
technique.

cgf

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