Remove bash-specific assumption

[dhirschfeld]

In the initialize function -l is unconditionally appended to the shell arguments irrespective of whatever shell it is. Since pwsh is available on linux the logic should be updated to account for this.

https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_server/blob/e3de58b3be9865e25d653d0f47db8d929440d3ab/jupyter_server/terminal/init.py#L18-L27

[dhirschfeld]

I think it would also be useful to allow the user to specify whatever arguments they wanted in the SHELL env var and to only append a -l to the default_shell - i.e. something like:

    if os.name == 'nt':
        default_shell = 'powershell.exe'
    else:
        default_shell = f"{which('sh')} -l"

    shell = settings.get(
        'shell_command',
        os.environ.get('SHELL', default_shell).split()
    )

[kevin-bates]

fyi: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/pull/5565 is slated for porting to server. We can then amend that to address these items.

[kevin-bates]

Hi @dhirschfeld - did you want to take a swing at a PR once #343 is merged?

[dhirschfeld]

Sorry, I'm completely smashed at the moment. I'll try to get to it in the next couple of weeks so if someone else wants to pick it up before then feel free...