From 9527e308e5b1b8ba5b6a8d4b49304a545f117f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Stefano <virtualstaticvoid@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:09:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] make kubectx consistent with kubens wrt. KUBECTL environment
 variable (#274)

---
 kubectx | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kubectx b/kubectx
index d2079d5..12ea40c 100755
--- a/kubectx
+++ b/kubectx
@@ -192,13 +192,15 @@ unset_context() {
 }
 
 main() {
-  if hash kubectl 2>/dev/null; then
-    KUBECTL=kubectl
-  elif hash kubectl.exe 2>/dev/null; then
-    KUBECTL=kubectl.exe
-  else
-    echo >&2 "kubectl is not installed"
-    exit 1
+  if [[ -z "${KUBECTL:-}" ]]; then
+    if hash kubectl 2>/dev/null; then
+      KUBECTL=kubectl
+    elif hash kubectl.exe  2>/dev/null; then
+      KUBECTL=kubectl.exe
+    else
+      echo >&2 "kubectl is not installed"
+      exit 1
+    fi
   fi
 
   if [[ "$#" -eq 0 ]]; then