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Subject: Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps?
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Reference: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00181.html

"Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and not just in the bash shell variable namespace?"

It is a documentation problem, from man bash:

"SHELL The full pathname to the shell is kept in this environment variable."

It may also be read from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html

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