SHELL

Default shell

WSupported on Windows
USupported on Unix

 

NSupported in Synergy .NET

The SHELL environment variable specifies the shell that the SHELL subroutine will use.

The shell you want the SHELL subroutine to use.

On Windows, if this environment variable is set, the SHELL subroutine and the debugger use the shell that you specify in this environment variable, rather than the default shell specified by COMSPEC. (For more information about COMSPEC settings, see your Windows documentation.)

On Unix, common shells are sh, csh, and ksh.

Note

Other Unix tools, such as vi, also use this environment variable.

The environment. On Windows, this environment variable can also be set in the [synergy], [dbr], or [myprog] section of synergy.ini (where myprog is any .dbr file).

Runtime

On Windows, if set in the synergy.ini file,

[synergy]
SHELL=c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c