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Explore Stack Internal When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check thatwhich shell is used, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real shell is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash and zsh picks sh if no shebang is specified.
When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check that, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real shell is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash.
To check which shell is used, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real shell is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, sh command is implemented by bash and zsh picks sh if no shebang is specified.
When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check that, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real programshell is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash.
When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check that, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real program is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash.
When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check that, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real shell is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash.
When you do not have any #! (called shebang) line, sh is used. To check that, you can run the following script.
ps -p $$ echo -n "The real shell is: " realpath /proc/$$/exe On my computer I get
PID TTY TIME CMD 13718 pts/16 00:00:00 sh The real program is: /usr/bin/bash even if my default shell is zsh. It uses bash since on my machine, the sh command is implemented by bash.