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default-shell
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Get the user's default shell
npm install default-shell
import defaultShell from 'default-shell';
// macOS
console.log(defaultShell);
//=> '/bin/bash'
// Windows
console.log(defaultShell);
//=> 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe'
There is also a method that gets the correct default shell even if it changes at runtime:
import {detectDefaultShell} from 'default-shell';
console.log(detectDefaultShell());
//=> '/bin/bash'
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Get the user's default shell
The npm package default-shell receives a total of 79,026 weekly downloads. As such, default-shell popularity was classified as popular.
We found that default-shell demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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