Which version of Terminal should be running in Tiger?

[mowogg]

I was looking at the MacDevCenter tutorial on Terminal and found that it was talking about bash. When I run Terminal on my machine (G5 Tower running 10.4.8) I am running TCSH.

Does that matter? I know there are different inputs for each, but does it matter for running commands? Can I switch to BASH?

TIA,
Rob

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

TCSH was the preferred shell in Terminal on earlier versions of OS X, so if you've upgraded the G5 from Panther, that might have stuck. The default whenever I've done a clean Tiger install has been BASH.

If you want to change it, go into /Utilities/NetInfo Manager and navigate / -> users -> <your name>, unlock and change the shell to /bin/bash

 

[iMeowbot]

Can I switch to BASH?

Yup. Easiest is the command

chsh -s /bin/bash

Your next new terminal window will reflect the change.

 

[mowogg]

I'm BASH now!

Yup. Easiest is the command

chsh -s /bin/bash

Your next new terminal window will reflect the change.

Wow, that was easy. Thank you so much.