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Question by mulla
Submitted on 10/27/2003
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How do I find the name of the current shell that I am working on(Whether csh or ksh or bsh)? Are there any specific commands to find out?

Answer by Thierry
Submitted on 11/12/2003
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Just type in the ps command. That should do it!! :o)

Answer by Jayakhanna
Submitted on 12/4/2003
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ps \| grep `echo $$` \| awk '{ print $4 }' This would do as ps will list all the shell, echo $$ will tell the current shells process id and then we can print the current shell after doing grep

Answer by Thayir
Submitted on 12/8/2003
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echo $SHELL

Answer by Jayakhanna
Submitted on 12/12/2003
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echo $SHELL will only tell the initial shell when you do ksh/csh after that it will still show the intial shell so this is not correct one. Regards JK

Answer by cong
Submitted on 1/1/2004
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if i want to put this in aliases file how can it be done? lets say: alias sh `ps \| grep "^ *$$" \| awk '{ print $4 }'` i kept getting error, either grep error or awk error, i think the problem is the order of `""''`

Answer by Robert Hunter
Submitted on 3/16/2004
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If I were to do this, I'd use: ps $$ And to alias it, as suggested above, I'd use: alias currentshell='ps --no-headers --format comm $$' I find it a good idea to use the long-format options for scripts and aliases -- you only have to type them once, and it makes what they do a whole lot clearer when you look at them later.

Answer by Ravikumar R
Submitted on 8/18/2004
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ps \| grep "$$"

Answer by Jay Padmanathan
Submitted on 12/9/2005
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In solaris you would say: ps -o comm= -p $$ The space after comm= is necessary to suppress unwanted headers

Answer by ParseANull
Submitted on 5/16/2006
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echo $0

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