While using remote sessions we may need to know the type and version of the remote shell. Bash is popular but there may be different shells like sh, csh, ksh etc.
Using $SHELL Variable
Shells provide environment variables to give information about the shell and the environment. $SHELLenvironment variable can be used to get current she type. $SHELL variable information is not so reliable.
$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash
We can see that our current shell is bash
Using ps Command
We can use ps command with some parameters to get shell information like below.
$ ps -p $$ PID TTY TIME CMD 3380 pts/8 00:00:00 bash
- We use ps command by providing the current process
