Changing Login Shells

[insomniac321123]

I read an article on macosx hints about changing the login shell in leopard. What exactly does it mean to change this? Is one of the shells better than the other? One commenter on the macosx site said everyone should change to zhs.

 

[killmoms]

If you are the kind of person who rates shells, you already know both how to do this and why you'd want to. If you don't, then there's no need. 😉

 

[yeroen]

I read an article on macosx hints about changing the login shell in leopard. What exactly does it mean to change this? Is one of the shells better than the other? One commenter on the macosx site said everyone should change to zhs.

The default shell in Mac OS X (and Linux) is bash. There's also tcsh and zsh (among others). Different people dig different things. If you never use terminal (i.e. never use the shell), then you don't need to worry about it.

A comparison can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_shells

 

[TEG]

The shell and other environmental settings are stored in .profile file in your home folder. I prefer BASH or KSH (zsh).

TEG