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Re: /bin/sh should set SHELL to /bin/sh
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: /bin/sh should set SHELL to /bin/sh |
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Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:13:13 -0400 |
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:59:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> IMO, if SHELL gets unset (it is usually initialised by login, or its
> equivalent), it should simply stay unset, and not be set to anything,
> until some user (or script) decides to set it again.
wooledg:~$ unset SHELL
wooledg:~$ bash -c 'echo "$SHELL"'
/bin/bash
wooledg:~$ ksh -c 'echo "$SHELL"'
/bin/sh
wooledg:~$ zsh -c 'echo "$SHELL"'
wooledg:~$ tcsh -c 'echo "$SHELL"'
SHELL: Undefined variable.
Looks like there's not much agreement here.