der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> a question on another list about determining which shell is currently
> being used led to some nice answers.
>
> I thought I'd post some here in that the answers might not only be useful,
> but might lead to learning more about how things work.
>
> ls -l /proc/$$/exe
> readlink /proc/$$/exe
> cat /proc/$$/cmdline
> ps -p $$ 
> ps | grep $$
>
> If you haven't wandered around in proc you should check it out. If you
> have, you should likely look again :).
>
> /me looks again.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>   
Another one is echo $0.


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