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What is command to find shell?

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Name: Sid Northfield
Date: August 13, 2002 at 11:51:05 Pacific
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What is the command to find out what shell I am running.
I am setting up Java development kit from Sun and need to set the path, I need to edit "****" file and add the path to the bin directory.

But I do not know what my shell is?????
Nor do I know the name of the file????



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Name: armin
Date: August 13, 2002 at 12:17:53 Pacific
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echo $SHELL
echo $PATH

those depend on the shell youre using
vi ~/.bashrc -or-
vi ~/.profile

man csh
man bash
man tcsh


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Response Number 2
Name: Lawrence
Date: August 13, 2002 at 17:05:35 Pacific
Reply:

Why don't you "finger" your uid to see what
shell you are using?

finger root

Lawrence


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Response Number 3
Name: armin
Date: August 15, 2002 at 11:54:45 Pacific
Reply:

*lol* @ lawrence :)
nice idea



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