Finding out which shell you are using

Information about which shell you are using is held in the SHELL environment variable. The command

   echo $SHELL

displays the value of this variable.

You can identify which shell you are presently using from the last part of the pathname.

Pathname Shell

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/.../sh Bourne shell /.../csh C shell /.../tcsh TC shell /.../ksh Korn shell /.../bash Bourne Again SHell __________________________________________________________


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