Re: Some comment about Cygwin1.1.4

["Noel L Yap" <yap_noel at jpmorgan dot com>]

What's the behaviour of this when running csh or tcsh?

Noel




cgf@cygnus.com on 2000.08.08 10:19:52

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To:   cygwin@sources.redhat.com
cc:   dj@cygnus.com (bcc: Noel L Yap)
Subject:  Re: Some comment about Cygwin1.1.4




I usually do something like:

(alias a=b) >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "we're running bash"

to detect which shell is in use.

cgf

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:08:43PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
>What about trying to execute "display-shell-version (C-x C-v)". If
>we're in a bash shell, we'd get the verision info (works on both
>bash1 and bash2) and I suppose that if we're on (a)sh we'd get nothing.
>
>Cheers,
>
>/ChJ
>
>
>Bob McGowan wrote:
>>
>> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> >
>> > > echo $BASH_VERSION ?
>> >
>> > No, because if you run sh from bash, it may inherit that environment
>> > variable.
>>
>> By default, it should not be exported, but a user could export it
>> themselves.
>>
>> How about a double check of RANDOM?  If it gets exported, the inherited
>> value in (a)sh appears to be constant, while in bash it changes with
>> each access.  The only problem I can see with this is that a user could
>> unset RANDOM, then make a new variable with that name, but which will
>> not have the special feature.  I would think that this is rare enough to
>> maybe be ignored?
>>
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