Beemakonda

• Nov 23rd, 2006

 

Unix provides 3 types of shell. i.e. Bourne Shell, K-Shell and C - Shell. The default shell is bourne shell and its mostly used shell. It provides the commands, keywords, control statements and operators to develop the shell scripting.ex: echo hello visixresult: hello visix

Chiranjeevi Manne

• May 24th, 2007

 

Method 1: more /etc/passwd|cut -d: -f6|grep $USER

Method 2: echo $SHELL

The above two commands would tell you default shell assigned to you.