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		SushiHippie on Jan 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster shell startup with shell switching On linux the $SHELL variable is set by login(1) and not the shell itself. I think this is the case for BSD too. See: https://man.archlinux.org/man/login.1 > The environment variable values for $HOME, $USER, $SHELL, $PATH, $LOGNAME, and $MAIL are set according to the appropriate fields in the password entry.

adrian_b on Jan 17, 2024 [–]

True. For instance I have "/bin/bash" in passwd, but I always switch to zsh.

$SHELL remains "/bin/bash".

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