Getting the current interactive shell name
Published on 2024-06-09 • Modified on 2024-06-09
This snippet shows how to get the current interactive shell name. We can use this $SHELL variable, which should be available in every unix-like shell.
echo $SHELL
// outputs "/opt/homebrew/bin/fish"
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