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Question by Sunny
Submitted on 7/22/2003
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How do I know which is my shell ? How do I set a default shell ?

Answer by janrao
Submitted on 10/14/2003
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using environment variable, user can know in which shell user logged in.

Answer by VASU TELLUPADI
Submitted on 11/24/2003
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For knowing shell type echo$SHELL IN .profile you can set your shell

Answer by llagos@amr.cl
Submitted on 3/17/2004
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to change: $ chsh (as any root) second option, if You are root, or as root, want to change someone else's shell # vi /etc/passwd to know current shell $ echo $SHELL

Answer by Surojit Mukerji
Submitted on 11/29/2004
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some systems have a SHELL environment variable. On the command line , doing a echo $SHELL would provide the name of the shell installed.

Answer by dipu
Submitted on 8/26/2005
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echo $0 will give the current shell

Answer by Mani Siva
Submitted on 4/18/2006
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Export SHELL=/bin/ksh is set the current shell and you can proceed

Answer by manips15@gmail.com
Submitted on 4/18/2006
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$ bash -vi /bin/ksh is applicable for Linux to change the shell to "kron Shell " . This has to be applied in rpm format for certain Discoverer application to run .

Answer by Mohanarangam Panneerselvam
Submitted on 5/4/2006
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Just type the following command which gives information about all the user_names and their corresponding default login shells set by the administrator. cat /etc/passwd \| cut -d":" -f1,7 Here the delimiter is ":" in that file field1 -> The first field(f1) is user_name field7 -> The seventh field(f7) is the default login shell for each user.

Answer by prashant baviskar
Submitted on 7/24/2006
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To know current shell >> $ echo $SHELL To change current shell >> $ chsh

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