Comments on: Unix Shell Tips: Change Login Shell From Bash to Others

By: ben

ben — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:00:39 +0000

echo $SHELL
is login
echo $0
is current

By: chetan

chetan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:15:04 +0000

pls give ans how can know login shell?

By: nick

nick — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:41:33 +0000

Is there a way to replace the current shell with sh (bourne) AND execute .profile (or some other file)? ksh can do this with the cmd ‘exec ksh’ if the ENV variable is set. The current shell is replaced with ksh and the file specified by ENV is run. I’m hoping to do the reverse (exec sh and have a script file run).

By: Destillat KW42-2009 | duetsch.info - GNU/Linux, Open Source, Softwareentwicklung, Selbstmanagement, Vim ...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:36:47 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:43:56 +0000

Why do you use debian/ubuntu specific commands in an article named Unix shell tips? Is there an aptitude port for unix? Can you use that on freebsd? Or maybe type apt-get on an Irix system?

By: Phaniraj

Phaniraj — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:25:13 +0000

To get list of shells supported.

chsh -l
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/sbin/nologin
/bin/zsh

By: NetSpider

NetSpider — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:58:41 +0000

actually “exec” is not necessary to change your shell (run new one).

/bin/sh
or
/bin/tcsh
or something else to run a new shell.
hit ^D to close new shell and return to old shell.

tcsh on FreeBSD:
~ ~> echo $0
-csh
~ ~> echo $SHELL
/bin/csh