Shelling out - fun with Ubuntu shells

I saw this: -

-sh: 2: [: -gt: unexpected operator
-sh: 29: [: -gt: unexpected operator

when logging into an Ubuntu boxen.

I was pretty sure that this'd worked before, but wondered whether my shell was giving me (s)hell ....

I checked what I was currently running: -

echo $SHELL

/bin/sh

which is a flavour of the Bourne Again SHell ( BASH ).

I then checked the /etc/passwd file: -

cat /etc/passwd

hayd:x:12039:12039::/home/hayd:

and realised that I didn't have an explicit shell set.

I upped my authority ( super user do ): -

sudo bash

[sudo] password for hayd: 

and then updated my account: -

usermod --shell /bin/bash hayd

Now /etc/passwd looks OK: -

hayd:x:12039:12039::/home/hayd:/bin/bash

and I'm now all good to go: -

echo $SHELL

/bin/bash