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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:19:29 -0500
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcsh - SHELL: Undefined variable.
Message-ID:  <20160222101929.GA6558@vmw-debian7-64.jexium-island.net>
In-Reply-To: <201602221010.u1MAAe7J088587@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <201602221010.u1MAAe7J088587@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:10:41AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I noticed recently that my tcsh does not
> define SHELL anymore:
>=20
> > echo $SHELL
> SHELL: Undefined variable.
>=20
> There is XTERM_SHELL:
>=20
> > setenv|grep SHELL
> XTERM_SHELL=3D/bin/tcsh

what version of xterm is this?

	xterm -v

(In making changes for $SHELL, I broke it -- a year or two ago -- fixed sin=
ce)

> but that's it.
>=20
> When I launch xterm from an existing shell,
> it opens with /bin/sh and returns nothing at all for $SHELL:
>=20
> $ echo $SHELL
>=20
> $
>=20
> This is weird because xterm manual says if shell
> name is not given on the command line, it tries
> to get it from /etc/passwd. My entry has /bin/tcsh:
>=20
> > grep `whoami` /etc/passwd
> <username, uid, gid, comment, home dir>:/bin/tcsh
>=20
> My .tcshrc:
>=20
> set path=3D(/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin \
>  /usr/X11R6/bin /home/mexas/bin /usr/local/kde4/bin/)
> setenv EDITOR vi
> setenv PAGER more
> setenv LSCOLORS "ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad"
> setenv LYNX_CFG ~/.lynx.cfg
> setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.UTF-8=20
> setenv NNTPSERVER nntp.aioe.org=20
> alias su /usr/bin/su -
>=20
> Please help
>=20
> Anton
>=20
>=20
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