Re: Should this be this way?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/26/13 12:41 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>       It isn't using the current value of SHELL as my shell nor the value
> of my login shell.

It uses $0 (or, rather, the basename of $0), which is initialized from
the parent shell's argv[0].  What is $0 set to?

> 
>       It is forcing interpretation into /bin/sh, which I don't use.

Not quite.  It is enabling posix mode.  There are a couple of ways to
do that: $POSIXLY_CORRECT, $0 == "sh", or set -o posix.

Chet


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