Gopi K

• Jun 21st, 2007

 

C shell - @
Bourne - %
Ksh - $

sreedevichandran

 Profile Answers by sreedevichandran Questions by sreedevichandran

• Jun 22nd, 2007

 

Hi gopi
Thanks for your response
I know the answer which u have mentioned here but we can also change the command prompt using the chsh command ,at this point, again this becomes a question?

Pruthvi

• Jul 13th, 2007

 

Hi



If we type any not existed command then the shell tell you that the command is not existed along with the shell name

Ex:
$ hello
then it says
bash:command not found
means that you are working with bash shell

Rakesh

• Aug 8th, 2007

 

echo $SHELL will give you the shell name as well as the path.

nareshbhatm

 Profile Answers by nareshbhatm 

• Jan 6th, 2008

 

$echo $SHELL

/bin/ksh

$

$csh

% echo $SHELL

/bin/ksh

% hello

hello: Command not found.

%

-->> The variable $SHELL doesn't show the shell when I changed the shel from ksh to csh

-->> Even trying to execute a non shell command (like hello) didn't tell the name of the shell as you can see here above. 

jana05

 Profile Answers by jana05 

• Jan 15th, 2008

 

I dont think so just by looking at the prompt one can recognize the shell [inputs pls, if otherwise], however you can run small commands to get the shell that you are using
    ps -p $$

should be your answer.

abdas

 Profile Answers by abdas 

• Aug 1st, 2011

 

There is no such way just by looking at the prompt as this is changable.

Ajit

• Sep 11th, 2015

 

To know the shell type the command - $echo $SHELL

shailesh chanderiya

• Jul 20th, 2016

 

For check current working shell is echo $0