Answer Detail: RE: How can you recognize a shell (C / Korn / Bourne) just by looking at the prompt?

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Question: How can you recognize a shell (C / Korn / Bourne) just by looking at the prompt?

January 01, 2008 05:23:51	#5
nareshbhatm	Member Since: January 2008 Total Comments: 2
RE: How can you recognize a shell (C / Korn / Bourne) just by looking at the prompt?
$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.