determine shell in script during runtime

Maybe not what you're asking for, but this should work to some extent to identify the interpreter currently interpreting it for a few like

  1. Thompson shell (osh),
  2. Bourne shell,
  3. Bourne-again shell (bash),
  4. Korn shell (ksh88, ksh93, pdksh, mksh),
  5. zsh,
  6. Policy-compliant Ordinary shell (posh),
  7. Yet Another shell (yash),
  8. rc shell,
  9. akanga shell,
  10. es shell,
  11. wish TCL interpreter,
  12. tclsh TCL interpreter,
  13. expect TCL interpreter,
  14. Perl,
  15. Python,
  16. Ruby,
  17. PHP,
  18. JavaScript (nodejs, SpiderMonkey shell and JSPL at least)
  19. MS/Wine cmd.exe, command.com (MSDOS, FreeDOS...).
'echo' +"'[{<?php echo chr(13)?>php <?php echo PHP_VERSION.chr(10);exit;?>}\
@GOTO DOS [exit[set 1 [[set 2 package] names];set 3 Tcl\ [info patchlevel];\
if {[lsearch -exact $1 Expect]>=0} {puts expect\ [$2 require Expect]\ ($3)} \
elseif {[lsearch -exact $1 Tk]>=0} {puts wish\ ($3,\ Tk\ [$2 require Tk])} \
else {puts $3}]]]' >/dev/null ' {\">/dev/null \
">"/dev/null" +"\'";q="#{",1//2,"}";a=+1;q='''=.q,';q=%{\"
'echo' /*>/dev/null
echo ">/dev/null;status=0;@ {status=1};*=(" '$' ");~ $status 1&&{e='"\
"';eval catch $2 ^'&version {eval ''echo <='^ $2 ^'&version''}';exit};e='"\
"';if (eval '{let ''a^~a''} >[2] /dev/null'){e='"\
"';exec echo akanga};eval exec echo rc $2 ^ version;\" > /dev/null
: #;echo possibly pre-Bourne UNIX V1-6 shell;exit
if (! $?version) set version=csh;exec echo $version
:DOS
@CLS
@IF NOT "%DOSEMU_VERSION%"=="" ECHO DOSEMU %DOSEMU_VERSION%
@ECHO %OS% %COMSPEC%
@VER
@GOTO FIN
", unless eval 'printf "perl %vd\n",$^V;exit;'> "/dev/null";eval ': "\'';
=S"';f=false e=exec\ echo n=/dev/null v=SH_VERSION;`(eval "f() { echo :
};f")2>$n` $f||$e Bourne-like shell without function
case `(: ${_z_?1}) 2>&1` in 1) $e ash/BSD sh;;esac;t(){
eval "\${$1$v+:} $f &&exec echo ${2}sh \$$1$v";};t BA ba;t Z z;t PO po;t YA ya
case `(typeset -Z2 b=0;$e $b)2>$n` in 00) (eval ':${.}')2>$n&&eval '
$e ksh93 ${.sh.version}';t K pdk;$e ksh88;;esac;case `(eval '$e ${f#*s}$($e 1
)$((1+1))')2>$n` in e12)$e POSIX shell;;esac;$e Bourne-like shell;: }
print "ruby ",RUBY_VERSION,"\n";exit;' ''';import sys
print("python "+sys.version);z='''*/;
s="";j="JavaScript";if(typeof process=="object"){p=console.log;p(process.title
,process.version)}else{p=print;p((f="function")==(t=typeof version)?"string"==
typeof(v=version())?v:(typeof build!=f?"":s= "SpiderMonkey ")+j+" "+v:(t==
"undefined"?j+"?":version)+"\n");if(s)build()}/*
:FIN } *///'''

I posted the initial version of that which_interpreter script circa 2004 on usenet. Sven Mascheck has a (probably more useful to you) script called whatshell that focuses on identifying Bourne-like shells. You can also find a merged version of our two scripts there.


On linux you can use /proc/PID/exe.

Example:

# readlink /proc/$$/exe
/bin/zsh

This is what I use in my .profile to check for various shells on the systems I work on. It doesn't make fine distinctions between ksh88 and ksh93, but it has never failed me.

Note that it doesn't require a single fork or pipe.

# Determine what (Bourne compatible) shell we are running under. Put the result
# in $PROFILE_SHELL (not $SHELL) so further code can depend on the shell type.

if test -n "$ZSH_VERSION"; then
  PROFILE_SHELL=zsh
elif test -n "$BASH_VERSION"; then
  PROFILE_SHELL=bash
elif test -n "$KSH_VERSION"; then
  PROFILE_SHELL=ksh
elif test -n "$FCEDIT"; then
  PROFILE_SHELL=ksh
elif test -n "$PS3"; then
  PROFILE_SHELL=unknown
else
  PROFILE_SHELL=sh
fi

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