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12 questions linked to/from How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?
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How to detect the command interpreter from within a shell script? [duplicate]
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How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?
I want to detect which interpreter a shell script is using. For example the following script:
#!/bin/bash
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Determine current shell name [duplicate]
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How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?
How do I determine the current shell path or shell name?
I only really need to distinguish sh and bash, however a portable ...
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Is there a general command to see what shell is running? [duplicate]
On some the shell can be read on in the command prompt, other can be seen when help is ran. But this are not covered by all the shells.
Is there a general command to see what shell is running?
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How can I check which shell I am currently using? [duplicate]
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How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?
An echo $SHELL will only display the value of the SHELL variable which would indicate the default shell on the system.
But I ...
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determine shell in script during runtime
As per my knowledge, to determine the current shell we use echo $0 in the shell. Rather I want my script to check in which shell it is running. So, I tried to print $0 in the script and it returns the ...
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Difference between "echo $SHELL" and "which bash"
I am trying to determine the location of bash interpreter on my Solaris system and I am a bit confused. When I type:
echo $SHELL
The resulting path is:
/bin/bash
And when I type:
which bash
I get:
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How do I *reliably* and *simply* get the current shell interpreter name?
I'm looking for a simple and reliable way to get the name of the current shell from inside a script or a sourced file (not from the command line). I would have expected to just do $(basename "$SHELL")...
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POSIX-compatible/cross-shell way to get version of running shell?
Is there a POSIX-compatible way or a way, which works on all shells, to get the version number of the shell, which is running?
With $SHELL ps -p$$ -ocmd= you can get the name/binary, so $SHELL --...
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Creating a shell script version of terminal commands
I am just starting to learn the basics of Linux terminal and I'm a little confused on converting terminal commands into shell script. How would I approach creating a script file in the Linux terminal ...
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cannot get scripts to run in a Lubuntu (Xenial) Minimal (+LXDE) VM with shebangs
I embarrassed myself a little here with a simple typo and a profound ignorance. Save yourself some grief:
your hasbangs/shebangs must always have a leading /, such as #!/bin/bash
be precise
if you ...
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ssh behavior for root and non-root user
When I ssh as root to a remote machine, the command output looks like this:
root@Machine:/current/path#:
However, if it's a non-root user, all I see is:
$
How can I get the same behavior as for the ...
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I can't find .bashrc on distro astro
I'm using distro astro 3, I tried to add something to .bashrc but I couldn't find it.
When I ran the command ls -a ~, I could find only .bash_history & .bash_logout should I create a .bashrc or ...
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