RE: How to find the Shell

[Shiraz Baig <shiraz_baig yahoo com>]

> Shyal Beardsley <shyal-b moving-picture com> wrote
.....

> Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it's only on
my system, but I can 
> get my shell with $SHELL

> echo $SHELL

You are absolutely right. Basically, SHELL is one of
the environment variables.The first method that I have
mentioned is exactly that. In case of bash
the command "env" will display all environment
variables including the SHELL.
bye
shiraz

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