Re: distinguishing shells

[haahr@kaleida.com (Paul Haahr)]

>OK -- anyone have a good suggestion as to how a script can distinguish
>itself as being run under sh vs. es?  I'm in the position where I have
>to do that (you don't want to know why -- really, you don't).  I have
>something that works, but it requires /bin/test.  I'd rather have a
>solution that didn't require any external programs.

what do you mean distinguish?

what do you need /bin/test for?  access and ~ should cover most purposes.