On 7/13/17 6:05 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 43
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When invoked as /bin/sh with SHELL unset, then bash should set SHELL
> to /bin/sh, not to the login shell for the current user.
Posix, the closest thing we have to a standard description of SHELL, says:
"This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's preferred command
language interpreter."
The best approximation of that is the user's login shell.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
