[LUNI] Remembering which shell (not a good explaination)

[Joe Digilio]

$SHLVL might be what you're looking for. It works well for me in tcsh, but 
in bash it doesn't seem to be quite so consistent (but then I rarely use 
bash so I could be wrong).

Joe


On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Jay Strauss wrote:

> Xterm.  I always su-ing and I get a few shells deep.  Then at some point I
> start exiting (trying to get back to my original).  Many times I'll exit one
> too many times and my window will close.
> 
> Anyone have a good idea how I could tell that I'm back to my original xterm
> shell (that was lanched from an ssh shell)?
> 
> Jay
> 
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