Re: definite way to determine the running shell

[Eric Blake]

On 03/27/2015 01:56 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> 
>> There are a lot of articles on the web about detecting the actually
>> running shell.
> 
> Why do you need to know that?

As the autoconf world has proven, it's better to test for features (will
THIS action work?) than for versions (am I on shell XYZ version ABC?).
Rather than figuring out "is this script running under bash", focus on
"what can I test up front to learn if the rest of my script can rely on
a certain feature being present", repeated for each feature that is not
in common to all shells.

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