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1?RCS: $Id: prefshell.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $
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3?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
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5?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
6?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
7?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
8?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
9?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
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11?RCS: $Log: prefshell.U,v $
12?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1994/10/29 16:28:13 ram
13?RCS: patch36: added SHELL temporary since metalint now sees ${SHELL}
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15?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1993/09/13 16:11:47 ram
16?RCS: patch10: non-portable var substitution was used (WAD)
17?RCS:
18?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:34 ram
19?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
20?RCS:
21?MAKE:prefshell: cat package Getfile Oldconfig ksh csh bash
22?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
23?S:prefshell:
24?S: This variable contains the eventual value of the PREFSHELL symbol,
25?S: which contains the full name of the preferred user shell on this
26?S: system. Usual values are /bin/csh, /bin/ksh, /bin/sh.
27?S:.
28?C:PREFSHELL:
29?C: This symbol contains the full name of the preferred user shell on this
30?C: system. Usual values are /bin/csh, /bin/ksh, /bin/sh.
31?C:.
32?H:#define PREFSHELL "$prefshell" /**/
33?H:.
34?T:SHELL
35: find out which shell people like to use most
36case "$prefshell" in
37'')
38 case "$ksh $bash $csh" in
39 */ksh*) dflt="$ksh" ;;
40 */bash*) dflt="$bash" ;;
41 */csh*) dflt="$csh" ;;
42 *) dflt='/bin/sh' ;;
43 esac
44 ;;
45*) dflt="$prefshell";;
46esac
47?X: Some shells (Ultrix) do not understand ${SHELL:-/bin/sh}, sigh!
48$cat <<EOM
49
50Give the full path name of the shell most people like to use on your system.
51This will be used by $package whenever the user wants to get a shell
52escape (for instance) and is not necessarily the same as the shell you are
53currently using (${SHELL-/bin/sh}).
54
55EOM
56fn=f/~
57rp='Preferred shell to be used?'
58. ./getfile
59prefshell=$ans
60