How to find which shell I am using on Linux

Posted by xmodulo on Nov 3, 2015 6:40 AM EDT
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There are different ways to tell what shell you are currently in. The easiest way to find that out is by using special shell parameters. For one, a special parameter named "$$" denotes the PID of the current instance of the shell you are running. This parameter is read-only and cannot be modified.

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