Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:01:47 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Greg Matheson cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where is $SHELL set? In-Reply-To: <20040218110026.A26963@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> Message-ID: References: <20040218110026.A26963@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Greg Matheson wrote: > I couldn't find anything about what is setting $SHELL. > [snip] > > man bash says it sets BASH, but there is nothing about SHELL. Though I > notice on a Linux server, SHELL is also set. > > Where is it being set? > -- > Greg Matheson, Taiwan Contrary to what the manpage says, bash sets $SHELL as part of its initialization code. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/