Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 00:57:30 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: environment variables, job control Message-ID: <20040430125730.GA3033@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20040429231930.D8617@floyd.gnulife.org> References: <20040429231930.D8617@floyd.gnulife.org>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:33:21PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.9. Hopefully this is not too far off-topic.
>
> My login shell is set to /bin/csh. Why is it that when I:
>
> % /bin/sh
> $ echo $SHELL
>
> I get:
> $ /bin/csh
Because $SHELL is set by the login process and not the shell. /bin/sh
doesn't invoke any special processing when it is invoked
(/usr/local/bin/bash on the other does quite a bit). Try it out on
other UNIXes, and the behaviour is the same.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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