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On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote:

>   $ echo $SHELL
>   /bin/bash
>   $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL'  # does this prove SHELL is exported?
>   SHELL: /bin/bash

No.  And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to
defining SHELL as a shell-local variable.  You have to explicitly export
it yourself if you want child processes to see it.

$ env -u SHELL bash -c 'echo $SHELL'
/bin/bash
$ env -u SHELL bash -c 'env | grep SHELL'
$ env -u SHELL bash -c 'export SHELL; env | grep SHELL'
SHELL=3D/bin/bash
$

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