Re: OT: environment variables, job control

From: Jonathan Chen (jonc_at_chen.org.nz)
Date: 04/30/04

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To: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>

    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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