Echo $SHELL command gives the wrong shell

[Tofi]

I’m using a freshly installed Manjaro with all the latest updates. When running the command echo $SHELL, it returns /bin/bash. However, I’m pretty sure the shell I’m running is zsh and not bash. For instance, if I type some gibberish command it would say:

$ frenerivnreo 
zsh: command not found: frenerivnreo

So do I need to fix this?

[zbe]

See: SHELL env var points to bash instead of zsh

[Alchemix]

Stupid question from my side, but isn’t the look and feel of a zsh shell so fundamentally different from BASH that there should be hardly a chance to mix them up?
What shell is getting identified by

Inxi

[Yochanan]

@Tofi

I’m pretty sure the shell I’m running is zsh

@Tofi

echo $SHELL … returns /bin/bash

I’m pretty sure you’re not. See Command-line shell - ArchWiki

@Alchemix

Stupid question

There are no stupid questions.

@Alchemix

What shell

See above

[Tofi]

OK thanks, So the default system shell is still bash, but konsole will automatically launch zsh when started.

[zbe]

Yes. It’s a profile. You can edit it/make your own.

[Tofi]

Yes, the shell behavior is what you would expect from zsh, with the colors and the tab completion etc…

[Alchemix]

Yochanan is there a reason you have been chopping up my comment into segments that are bar of any content?
I have suggested a different way to check for the shell, not just simply asked “What Shell”