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You do not need to run env externally, because the whole environment is already available in the hash %ENV. There is, however, another flaw in your solution: bash does NOT guarantee that SHELL is set at all.

I don't think there is a foolproof way to find out which shell you have. One possibility to test for bash would be with the following command:

perl -wle '@ARGV==0 && print "warning, you are not running bash"' $BAS
+H_VERSION
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We can't use %ENV here, because BASH_VERSION is not an environment variable.

Another possibility is to use the current process id ($$) and the output of ps and see how the current process was called, assuming that if it is something like 'bash' or '-bash', it is probably a bash shell.

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re: Environment discovery under Linux by rovf
in thread Environment discovery under Linux by The Hindmost

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