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Re: /bin/sh should set SHELL to /bin/sh
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: /bin/sh should set SHELL to /bin/sh |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:02:49 -0400 |
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On 7/13/17 6:05 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 43
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> When invoked as /bin/sh with SHELL unset, then bash should set SHELL
> to /bin/sh, not to the login shell for the current user.
Posix, the closest thing we have to a standard description of SHELL, says:
"This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's preferred command
language interpreter."
The best approximation of that is the user's login shell.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/